Democratic strategist James Carville suggested that Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) form her own political party.
Omar easily won her district in November, receiving approximately 75% of the vote in the general election and 56% of the Democratic vote in the preceding primary.
However, comments she made about 8 years ago criticizing white men resurfaced online, prompting Carville’s condemnation on the Politics War Room podcast’s “Outrage of the Week” segment.
“I would say our country should be more fearful of white men in our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country,” Omar said in a 2018 interview with Al Jazeera.
“Ilhan Omar, lady, why do not you leave the Democratic Party? “Start your own movement,” Carville said on Thursday’s episode, mispronouncing Omar’s first name.
“So the progressive left is going to launch a campaign against white men, who account for roughly one-third of all voters in the election? Why do not you start your own party, lady? And then, once it is over, if you want to caucus with the Democrats, fine. We agree with a lot of your positions, but we do not think we should be running against white men.”
“In fact, we do not think we ought to be running against any gender, any ethnic group, any race, any religion or anything else,” Carville went on: “Goddamn, these people are so helpless. They can not be helped. There is nothing you can do to help them; they do not want to be helped. And if they had any guts, they should form their own goddamn political party and leave us alone.”
The video drew the ire of Vice President JD Vance, who reshared it on X.
“This is not just sick; it is actually genocidal language,” Vance captioned the video on Monday. “What a disgrace this person is.”
“In this nearly 8yr old clip, I am referring to the rise of white nationalism in an annual report issued by the Anti-Defamation League that said white supremacists were responsible for 78 percent of ‘extremist-related murders,'” wrote Omar in reply. “PS you should look up what ‘genocidal’ actually means when you are actively supporting a genocide taking place in Gaza.”
Omar was referring to Israel’s conflict with Hamas, which has primarily occurred in Gaza. The Minnesota representative has long condemned Israel’s actions, including boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress last year. She has since been removed from the House Foreign Affairs committee.