Democrat Strategist “Republicans Will Kill People To Stay in Power, Literally”

James Carville claims Republicans will kill people to stay in office.

It is a typical scare tactic from the Left. Some Democrat politician, strategist, or media talking head speaks in sound bites and hopes that someone buys their rhetoric. In their eyes and in their lies, everything that Republicans do is evil. Even when the GOP protects the voting process.

Recently, James Carville, the “expert” Democrat strategist made just such a wild claim. During an appearance on MSNBC, the 75-year-old consultant criticized the Wisconsin State Elections.

At first, Carville stayed in political character, saying, “My kind of mission in the short-term is to sound the alarm to say [that] Mitch McConnelll and the Supreme Court — they’re going to do everything they can to hold onto power.”

“This thing in Wisconsin was one of the most awful things I’ve ever seen in my life,” he added.

But then, doing what the Left always does, Carville went too far. 

“The extent that they will go to to hold onto power — it was all about one Supreme Court seat in Wisconsin — they will kill people to stay in power, literally.”

Wisconsin on the National Stage

Carville’s accusation referred to the recent Wisconsin State Election. Democrat Governor Tony Evers postponed the election and ordered voters to stay home. The conservative-majority Supreme Court overturned that order, and the election went on as scheduled.

Wisconsin starkly highlighted how important the ability to exercise their constitutional rights is to many voters, even during a pandemic. 

For example, thousands of Milwaukee voters waited in line for up to two hours to cast their ballots in person. Because so few polling stations were open,the lines sometimes stretched four or five blocks. Overall, however, coronavirus fears meant voter turnout was low at just 34%. 

Somehow, Carville spins the wild theory that blocking the Democratic Governor’s unconstitutional order to postpone the election means that Republicans were interfering with the lawful process.

“What I do fear is what you had in Wisconsin where they try to muck with the election and stop people from voting,” Carville said inaccurately.

Carville Gets it Wrong

The Democrat side of the story simply doesn’t hold water. Carville and other Left-Wingers say Republicans pushed for the election because it helped one of their candidates win his election. They claim that in-person put Democrats at a disadvantage. They don’t explain how that is the case, they just repeat the lie over and over again until it sounds like the truth.

What is the proof that there was no grand Republican plan, as the Democrats claim?

At the center of the debate was an open State Supreme Court seat. The race was between Democrat Jill Karofsky and Republican Daniel Kelly. Before the elections, polls showed that the race was extremely tight and could go either way. 

Kelley was the popular incumbent, appointed to the position by the previous Governor in 2016. A postponed election was in the best interests of both Kelly himself and the Republican Party in Wisconsin. Because to win such a close contest in a state with a Democratic Governor, Kelly needed a high voter turnout among Republicans. That was unlikely to happen during the current social distancing situation.

And it didn’t. Karofsky beat Kelly, with 55% of the vote.

So much for Republicans “doing everything they can to stay in power”.