Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who is running this year for re-election to a third term as governor, is considered a potential contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The billionaire governor, a member of the Pritzker family that owns the Hyatt hotel chain and who has started several of his own venture capital and investment startups, is running this year for a third term to steer Illinois.
And Pritzker, who has become a leading voice in the Democrats' opposition to Trump and has taken steps to Trump-proof his solidly blue state, has made a handful of trips in recent years to the key early voting states in the race for the White House.
Carville noted that Pritzker "campaigns hard."
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Asked about whether he could see Harris as the party's standard-bearer in 2028, Carville responded, "She has no chance."
Harris replaced then-President Joe Biden as the Democrats' 2024 presidential nominee after Biden dropped his bid in July of that year, a month after a disastrous debate performance against Trump. Harris ended up losing the general election to Trump, who narrowly swept all seven key battleground states.
Progressive champion Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York is considered a potential contender for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination. (Fox News)
Asked by Fox News Digital if there's anyone else he thinks is worth watching as a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, Carville mentioned former Louisiana Lt. Gov. and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
Landrieu mulled but ultimately decided against a 2020 White House and later served in the Biden administration.
Carville, pointing to "two huge mistakes that the Democratic Party made," also blamed former President Barack Obama and Biden for Trump's 2016 and 2024 White House wins.
Obama continued and implemented the unprecedented $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, which was initiated by then-President George W. Bush at the very end of his White House tenure to stabilize the nation's financial system after the 2008-2009 crisis.
The program prevented a total economic collapse, but was widely unpopular with voters.
"The mistake they made was not going after these bankers," Carville said, as he pointed to moves by Obama and his administration. "We bailed them out."
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And Carville emphasized that "there is one person who is responsible for the election of Donald Trump in 2024, and it’s not Donald Trump, it’s Joe Biden."
Carville argued that if Biden "would have gotten out in September of 2023, it wouldn’t have been close."
Paul Steinhauser is a politics reporter based in the swing state of New Hampshire. He covers the campaign trail from coast to coast."
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