Carville predicts GOP ‘wipeout’ in 2026 midterms
by Sophie Brams - 01/17/26 2:57 PM ET
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville predicted Saturday that the 2026 midterm elections will be a “wipeout” for Republicans, with Democrats picking up 25 seats “at a minimum.”
“Frankly, it’s going to be a wipeout,” Carville told host Kayleigh McEnany on Fox News’s “Saturday in America.”
“Your viewers need to know that the Democrats are going to pick up at a minimum 25 seats, maybe as high as 45. In all likelihood, the Democrats will carry the Senate,” he added.
Carville was responding to an op-ed in the New York Times by David Plouffe, a former senior advisor to former President Obama, in which Plouffe argued Democrats had “no credible path to sustained control of the Senate and the White House.”
“After the adjustments to the Electoral College map that look likely to come with the next census, the Democratic presidential nominee could win all the states won by Kamala Harris, plus the blue wall of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and still fall short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win,” Plouffe wrote. “An already unforgiving map becomes more so.”
McEnany asked if Carville had “as dim of a view” on the path forward for Democrats as Plouffe, to which Carville responded that Plouffe’s outlook was more focused on 2028 and beyond than the upcoming midterms.
After calling Carville’s prediction “bold,” McEnany argued that an “economic revival” coming from the Trump administration could actually lead Republicans to overperform in November.
“Well, I guess anything is possible,” Carville replied, before blasting comments Trump made earlier in the week in an interview with Reuters, suggesting “we shouldn’t even have an election” because of how much he had accomplished.
“We might disagree on who’s going win, but I think you and I can agree we got to have the election, right? That’s the important thing, is to have it,” Carville said.
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