James Carville says Kamala Harris has to answer for past far-left policies: 'Bad answer would hurt her a lot'

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Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday on his "Politics War Room" podcast that Vice President Kamala Harris needed to explain her past far-left positions during her first interview as a presidential candidate.

"She’s going to have to answer for it and I hope she has an encompassing answer that takes every one of these things. Because it is an absolute truism of American politics that anybody that ever listens to a single thing that the identity left ever said has lived to regret it. It’s just a fact, and she’s said some things she’s going to have to answer for. I think she can. I don’t think it’s fatal. I think a bad answer would hurt her a lot," Carville said. "But she’s got to answer it. There’s no doubt about it."

Harris has flip-flopped on multiple far-left positions she took during her ill-fated presidential campaign in 2019, including on immigration, fracking and private health insurance.

Carville's co-host Al Hunt noted that the one thing he felt was missing at the Democratic National Convention was that Harris did not address her 2019 campaign.

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"She no longer believes some of those left-wing positions she took, she no longer believes doing away with private health insurance, minimal border control, banning fracking. She made clear that she doesn't hold