Carville: Trump ‘going to walk away’ from presidency by next Easter

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Democratic strategist James Carville on Sunday predicted that President Trump is “going to walk away” from the presidency and leave office by next Easter.

Carville said during a discussion with his “Politics War Room” podcast co-host Al Hunt that Trump “has no earthly idea of what’s coming” following the midterm elections in the fall.

“The vote against him in November is going to be, like, breathtaking,” he told Hunt. “And he’s already bored. He can’t stay awake. He says he’s bored with the Iran war. I’m telling you, this guy, by Easter of 2027, is just going to walk away from his job.”

Carville said Trump will do this in response to the “massive rejection of him, anybody that has anything to do with him, anything that has anything to do with [him].” He called Trump “soft” and accused the president of being “distracted.”

“He’s obviously not well, he sleeps all the time, slobbers all over himself or whatever,” the former campaign strategist to former President Clinton said.

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, in a statement to The Hill, called Carville “a stone-cold loser who suffers from a severe and incurable disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome, and it has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”

Trump and Republican lawmakers face an uphill battle for the next five months as voters express disapproval over the administration’s handling of affordability and the cost of living. Prices have soared following the start of the U.S.-Israeli conflict against Iran, though prices have dipped after the U.S. and Iran signed an initial agreement to end the conflict.

The president previously warned Republicans that if they lose their grip on Congress, Democrats will impeach him. Some candidates, including Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D), have called for the president to be impeached.

“We haven’t ruled anything in or ruled anything out in terms of accountability,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker on Sunday. “What we have said is that our focus is going to be to make life more affordable for the American people.”

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), after losing the GOP primary to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), whom Trump endorsed, suggested to The New York Times that the president will face a rough two years to end his second term.

“It’s going to make things harder, certainly more expensive in Texas, and make it harder around the country,” Cornyn said. “I don’t say that with any sort of desire for vengeance; I just think that’s the way it’s going to be. He’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term, I think, because I think November is going to be a disaster.”

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