In March 2024, months before President Donald Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential election, Carville warned Democrats to abandon woke politics, arguing the party was dominated by "too many preachy females," both of which, he said, were alienating male voters. "I think that this country made two bad bets," Carville added, "And they both seemed like good bets at the time. One is we decided we're going to be a nation of homeowners. And, two, that we were going to be a nation of people that went to college. Both of those strategies are, in effect, blowing up in our faces.