James Carville: No One Represents the Democratic Party, There’s No Leader of the Party

SORKIN: “How do you ultimately, and maybe I’d say who, who within the party right now do you think represents the party? You know, Scott Bessent, by the way, said he thought that Mamdani represents the party. I don’t know if that’s true either.”
CARVILLE: “No one represents the party. The only person that can represent the party is a presidential nominee, who will be chosen by the party members who vote in the primaries. Congressional parties don’t have a — or generally don’t, and we certainly don’t have a defining person. And that’s what people say, ‘Well, there’s no leader of the party.’ No, there won’t be. But that’s what Democrats are going to decide. And they’ll also decide in what direction that the party is going on. And, you know, the greatest game in the world, ‘Well, who’s the leader?’ ‘Well, I don’t know.’ ‘Is it Schumer?’ ‘No, it’s not Schumer.’ ‘Well, maybe it’s this.’ ‘No, I don’t believe that.’ Well, there can’t be one. And so — but what can happen is we can make a good argument and we can win a ton of elections while everybody in the press is sitting on a table saying, ‘Well, Democrats have lost the Hispanic vote, they’ve lost the young vote, they’ve lost the male vote.’ Of course, it all came back. And you just got to win elections. But we’re not going to have a leader until we have a presidential nominee.”