Longtime Democrat strategist James Carville has predicted that the Left will soon give up on pushing for male athletes to compete in female sports as it goes against the “view that most Americans have.”
Carville, the lead strategist on Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, believes other Democrats will follow California Gov. Gavin Newsom in speaking out against transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.
Newsom made headlines earlier this month over his pivot to objecting to males participating in women’s sports.
The Democrat governor called it “deeply unfair” in a podcast conversation with Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Newsom’s shift comes as the governor attempts to rebrand himself as a centrist in preparation for the 2028 presidential election.
Reacting to Newsom in an interview with Fox News, Carville said:
“I think that’s a view that most Americans have.
“I’m not that big into the state track meet, but athletic administrators can figure this out.
“It’s not a major issue to me, and we took on a lot of water for something we weren’t gonna address.”
A poll conducted by The New York Times in January found that nearly 80% of Americans oppose males claiming to be “transgender women” in female sports.
That figure included a whopping 67% of Democrats.
Carville sounded the alarm about the unpopular stance Democrat officials have embraced on the issue.
“If you think the issue is that important, then you got to convince people,” Carville said.
“They’re telling people we got to be courageous and be for this.
“Why don’t you change public opinion and win an election, and then you might be able to achieve your goal?
“But right now the public doesn’t want it.
“And you’re asking Democrats to do this.
“And all you’re doing — they are not going to change in the short term for sure.
“And all you’re doing is helping the opposition.”
“Newsom said it. [Rep.] Seth Moulton [D-MA] said it.
“I suspect you’re gonna have more come out with it,” he added.
Despite it being a rare 80-20 issue for Americans, Democrats continue to advocate for the unpopular view.
Earlier this month, Senate Democrats blocked a bill that would ban male “transgender” athletes from competing in women’s sports.
However, Carville didn’t think his party was in the wrong by blocking the bill.
“I think that this is an issue of the athletic associations,” Carville said.
“The governor of Utah, all right, Governor Cox — they gave him an anti-trans sports bill.
“And he said, ‘Look, I have 100,000 high school athletes in the state of Utah. I got four that are trans. This is not my problem.’
“Somebody said that 50,000 women athletes in the NCAA and maybe six [are transgender].
“Let the NCAA figure it out,” he continued.
“That’s not a state legislature problem.
“Let the Olympics deal with it.”
“I actually used to run track,” he added.
“So I watch the NCAA track meet. I never think about it! It doesn’t cross my mind.
“I don’t think there needs to be a legislative solution to this…
“That’s not a legislative issue. It’s an issue for the associations.
“We don’t need to have anything that detracts from the association’s ability to determine eligibility rules in any sport.”
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