Carville Reveals the Trouble for Trump in His Primary Wins

YouTube/Politicon Donald Trump had a “terrible” night Tuesday when the candidates he endorsed narrowly won their runoff primaries, James Carville argued.

On the Politics War Room podcast , Carville, 81, reacted to the Senate primary in South Carolina and the gubernatorial primary in Oklahoma.

Sen.

Darline Graham won the former with 52.5 percent, and ex-State Sen.

Mike Mazzei won the latter with 50.28 percent, beating his opponent by only about 2,000 votes out of over 371,000 cast.

Those two wins came a week after the number of Trump-endorsed GOP candidates who lost their races this primary season reached double digits , with six occurring in August alone.

But to Carville, any notion of Trump, 80, reasserting his strength over Republican primaries was overblown.

“In my opinion, this is a terrible night for Trump.

He barely got above 50 in Republican primaries in South Carolina and Oklahoma,” the Democratic strategist said.

“They played it as a big Trump win.

I don’t understand it.” In addition to those margins, Carville called attention to how some supporters of South Carolina Rep.

Ralph Norman, Graham’s opponent, booed Trump for getting involved in the race.

This, he said, may reflect Trump’s weakening grip on his base.

“Man, when you get 50.5 in a Republican primary in South Carolina, and then the guy that got 49-and-a-half attacks you and the crowd breaks out wildly cheering, or in Oklahoma—which, I don’t know if there’s a redder state or place in the world than Oklahoma—and they barely won,” Carville said, though Norman received 47.5 percent of the vote.