Carville: Hogg should take over ‘dysfunctional’ DNC

Democratic political strategist James Carville on Sunday said former Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chair David Hogg should succeed chair Ken Martin, calling the DNC “dysfunctional.”

Carville, who said he was recovering from hernia surgery, said in a video posted to YouTube that he wanted to weigh in on The New York Times’s reporting on Martin and the DNC. The report alleges that Martin has been under pressure amid financial woes within the party and, as the Times writes, is “gripped by fear that he will lose his job and relying on a vanishingly small circle of people he trusts.”

“It was a story on a DNC that basically said it’s dysfunctional,” Carville said. “It’s just difficult to do anything with it, and it’s all true. And at the end of the day, who cares?”

Carville said that some of the DNC’s leaders could “get themselves together” and “figure out, maybe they could be somewhat relevant, I have no idea.”

“If David Hogg wants to take it over, then I ain’t stopping you,” he continued. “Go ahead, man, I really don’t........

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