Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., doesn’t have many friends left after Democratic leaders were left reeling from racist comments she just made.
In fact, veteran Democratic strategist James Carville is demanding Omar leave the Democratic Party, telling her she has no business attacking White male voters when they make up a third of the American electorate.
Carville made the remarks Wednesday on SiriusXM’s “Straight Shooter with Stephen A.” after host Stephen A. Smith asked him about a May 2025 statement. In the statement, Carville had fired at Omar directly after she had said the United States “should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country.”
“Lady, why don’t you just get out of the Democratic Party,” Carville said at the time. “Honestly, start your own movement.”
When Smith asked Carville to stand by his statement demanding Omar be ousted from the Democrats, Carville doubled down.
“But she started attacking White males, and I’m going to say, ‘Wait a minute, let’s stop. Alright.’ In 2024, 72% of the people that voted were White. All right? That’s just a fact. Of that, 72, probably 48% or 48 and a half, were male,” Carville said, pointing out that “about 33% of the people that are going to vote are going to be White males. Well, it’s stupid to attack 33% of the voters!”
“And so what I would say to Congresswoman Omar, ‘Why don’t you be a Democratic Socialist of America?’ Do what AOC did, and then if they win, the truth of that is, I share a lot of ideological issues in common with Congressman Omar, but maybe you should do like a parliamentary government. We’ll let you in the governing coalition, but not the electoral coalition,” Carville said.
Omar’s 2018 Al Jazeera comments are not the only flashpoint that has put her at odds with her own party’s leadership. She drew fresh criticism at Trump’s February 24 State of the Union address, where she shouted and disrupted the president after he raised the issue of illegal immigration.
Omar later said she had no regrets about the nasty outburst, calling it “unavoidable.”