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‘Not of Concern to Me!’: James Carville Couldn’t Care Less About Trans Athletes

Piers Morgan pressed the Democratic strategist on the topic while discussing former Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss in the presidential election.

One of the Democratic Party’s most outspoken political strategists shared some choice words on trans rights.

When host Piers Morgan suggested former Vice President Kamala Harris’s support of transgender athletes in sports helped cost Democrats the election, James Carville shot back.

“If you’re concerned about the state track meet, please, do something about it,” Carville said on Piers Morgan Uncensored Friday. “If you’re concerned about that or about bath stalls, then hang out in bathrooms—this is not of concern to me!”

“I’m worried about the cost of living. I’m worried about access to healthcare,” Carville added.

Many Republican candidates featured attacks on trans rights in their campaigns this past cycle, using the hot-button culture war topic to assail Democrats. Morgan himself has repeatedly banged that drum, getting into a recent spat with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on his show in December.

Earlier in the show, Carville had conceded that he disagreed with what he described as the Democratic Party’s tendency toward “faculty lounge goofy academic language” and that the GOP had done a better job of capitalizing on social issues like the trans rights debate.

He nevertheless insisted that “it’s not my number one thing” and that, “honestly, I don’t think about it that much.”

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