Carville: Dems Should Grant DC, Puerto Rico Statehood and Pack SCOTUS When They Regain Power
“Don’t run on it, don’t talk about it. Just do it.”
Longtime Democrat strategist and Bill Clinton bag man James Carville is saying the quiet part out loud.
During a recent episode of the ‘Politics War Room’ podcast, he suggested that the next time Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the presidency, they should grant statehood to the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, and pack the U.S. Supreme Court.
In his angry rant, he also lets it fly that he still believes Republicans ‘stole’ the 2000 election and have stolen seats on the Supreme Court.
🚨Top Democrat political consultant and campaign strategist, James Carville, just stated on the Left-wing ‘Policon’ podcast that when the Democrats regain power, they plan to:
-Grant statehood to Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, so that the Democrats can unlock 4 extra seats in… pic.twitter.com/z04hVHc3Vw
— Morse Report (@MorseReport) April 18, 2026
FOX News reports:
Carville tells Dems to quietly prepare power grab with DC, Puerto Rico statehood and Supreme Court packing
Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville suggested on Thursday that Democrats should quietly prepare to launch a variety of structural changes to ensure a political advantage once they regain power.
Carville and co-host Al Hunt of the “Politics War Room” podcast took questions from listeners on an episode released Thursday. One asked whether Democrats should “flood the zone with a corrective implementation policy using their majority to simultaneously enact a myriad of structural changes to save our democracy and preserve our rights” if they return to power in 2029.
“I’ve got some thoughts about what the Democrats should do [when] they return to power in 2029,” Hunt replied. “But, you know, I haven’t thought it through thoroughly, yet. I’m really focused on what they should do when they win the House and maybe the Senate in 2027, and that’s to hold Trump as accountable as they possibly can.”
Carville, however, offered a more aggressive plan of action, saying, “If the Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, I think on day one, they should make Puerto Rico [and] D.C. a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13. F— it. Eat our dust.”
Statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico are believed to overwhelmingly favor Democrats, likely giving them four more Senate seats. This move, along with expanding the Supreme Court, would likely be viewed by Republicans as a power grab in the pursuit of ensuring a party’s political dominance.
“They’ve done everything they could,” Carville continued. “They held up the 2000 election. They stole it. They’ve stolen Supreme Court seats. They’ve gerrymandered everything that you can.”
Here’s the audio:
Carville previews what’s in store if Democrats retake power — says they should keep their plans quiet:
“If Democrats win the presidency and both houses of Congress, on day one, they should make Puerto Rico and DC a state, and they should expand the Supreme Court to 13."
“F*ck… https://t.co/FrNbVwUTks pic.twitter.com/V4KK8j52AM
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) April 20, 2026
What is to stop Republicans from taking similar steps in the future? Do we just keep going until the U.S. Supreme Court has as many members as the House of Representatives?
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Democrats will finally be what they have always wanted to be- totalitarian.
Huh , I thought he was dead!
Wishful thinking,
He very much alive. I used to listen to him occasionally for entertainment value. One tunes in to Carville for the same reason people visit zoos. But when the animals start throwing their bodily wastes at you, the charm wears off. Now Carville has become an obnoxious old man full of venom and profanity.
Packing SCOTUS will become a game that two can play with absurd consequences. Do the Democrats want a civil war?
“Do the Democrats want a civil war?”
In all likelihood they probably do.
Don’t ignore Carville. Hillary ignored him and cut him out and if she had listened the 2016 election would have been a lot closer. He may be a first class Ahole but he knows politics as good or better than anyone in the country.
We have the guns and they don’t know which restroom to use; Maybe they should think about what they wish for.
You’re thinking of Hitler.
Or Franco who last time I checked is still dead.
You can add Nicolae Ceaușescu to that list.
He is. That’s why he votes democrat.
Carville is right about one thing – you have to strike while the iron is hot. We should do the same thing right now, but can’t, because we don’t really have 53 Senators. On controversial issues, we might not have more than 47 or 48. You need 50+ the VP to do anything.
We have maybe 20 that are truly conservative and might do something like that. The rest range from “scared of what people would say” to “squish” to “Democrat in all but name.”
We don’t even have 5 that will stand up to Thune
Thune isn’t the problem. He is just a vote counter. He won’t bring up anything that can’t get 50.
And Phead knows a thing or three about stealing elections.
Hey Phead – how about just no.
Dissolve DC down to the very minimum. Cut Puerto Rico lose. Your independent now baby. Go find someone else to suck money out of.
As for the supreme court. Adopt the democratic idea and pack it with conservations right now. Do not wait. Do not pass go. Just do it.
Oh and Phead – just die already.
Agree with you wholeheartedly. Most of DC should be returned to MD the way Arlington County was returned to CA. Also, Puerto Rico is to tempting a target for DemoncRats. Give it its independence.
I disagree. I want to give NorVa back to DC. Let all those in the DC bedroom communities there leave our voter rolls.
Oh, and I concur on cutting PR loose from the US.
I’ve heard of referring to Carville as “Snakehead,” but where did “Phead” come from?
Well take a good look at him. His head resembles the male appendage but this is a family friendly site – mostly.
Plus, it’s easy to think of Carville when we think of a toilet or urinal.
LOL! The Brits call someone a “bell end,” which probably wouldn’t offend those who don’t understand its meaning.
The doddering, tottering, bloviating Cajun has been smoking too much of that Bayou Herb. It’s time for him to be put out to pasture, where he can actually be of use, as gator feed.
There are so many like him I’m not sure it would make any difference.
Well, this dope is a prominent Dhimmi-crat nag. One less obnoxious talking head among their wretched ranks would still be welcome.
Cajuns are not at all like New Orleans ,trash.
The Creole are from the city not Cajuns. And he’s a fake Cajun, Cajuns don’t come from Georgia. Trash.
Yes, of course. The Trojan Horse strategy that the people of Virginia have learned about so well.
Call his bluff. Pack the court now.
It wouldn’t pass. Not only wouldn’t there be 60 votes in the senate to break a filibuster, there likely wouldn’t even be 50, and it might not even pass the house.
In all the years that the Democrats have controlled Louisiana, has the state been better off for it? It’s always ranked at the bottom of most every list. James Carville is just a bitter old man, and will go to the grave like that.
Hey, doofus! Making DC a state would require a Constitutional Amendment.
Also, we’ve offered PR statehood several times, and the majority of them don’t want it (because they might not be able to be as big of leeches as they currently are).
No, it wouldn’t. All it would require is a majority vote in both houses (including overcoming a senate filibuster) and the president’s signature.
The Exclusive Legislation clause doesn’t require a federal district; it merely allows for one. And the 23rd amendment assumes that one exists, but doesn’t require it. If there is no “district constituting the seat of government” then the amendment has no effect. If a small federal district is reserved then that district would be entitled to appoint 3 electors, but it wouldn’t have to.
The Democrats don’t care whether they want it. If given the chance they will try to make it a state whether its majority want it or not. It would give them two senators, six electors, and probably at least 3 out of 4 representatives.
And how would you propose that Puerto Rico would just suddenly take up the mantle of statehood when they have already rejected it? There’s a little problem of coming up with a formal STATE constitution (not the “commonwealth” form they have right now), not that they couldn’t amend the current one—but that would take time and willingness of a popular vote to accept it. Then there’s the problem of implementing it, reconfiguring their Commonwealth government into a state government and losing their unique status and federal support which they would lose as a plain old state. There’s no advantage in it to Puerto Rico at all.
As for DC, talk about a litigation nightmare! Maryland would want its territory back for tax and representation purposes, and the DC City Council would want to maintain its own political powers. And then there are the “devil in the details” issues, e.g. DC has its own professional licensure powers for nurses, physicians, etc., with rules that can be different than Maryland’s regulatory requirements. Good luck with that seamless integration. Congress just passing a law saying “Congrats, you’re a state, DC” would go over like a lead balloon down in Annapolis with a State House that’s running a perpetual deficit and doesn’t feel like sharing the tax revenue.
Carville is actually jealous of Iran’s leadership because they can simply kill protesters and openly execute political opponents in the street. That’s his idea of a Dem democracy.
And you, you sick fu*k, should drink a gallon of bleach and eat the barrel of a shotgun.
With all respect, I think like all judges appointed by Autopen, you are being far too lenient to Carville.
Keep talking, you old totalitarian election denier.
Talk louder. Buy billboards. Go on Jimmy Kimmel.
Let the world see what sick, power-hungry f*s your party are.
Well if he goes on Kimmel almost no one will see him. Joe Rogan on the other hand…
Jimmy seems like the kind of fellow one would expect to have lots of coverage in the Epstein files.
Given the Dhimmi-crats’ utterly clownish, incompetent and weak slate of presidential candidates, I would wager that the obnoxious and odious Cajun will shuffle off this mortal coil long before the Dhimmi-crats regain the White House.
The Cajun should shut his greasy trap and concentrate on living through two consecutive terms of President Vance or Rubio, starting in January, 2029.
I almost always (more often recently) root for the (R)s over the (D)s, but I’d really have no heartburn over PR gaining statehood. If a territory wants and deserves statehood, there’s no non-partisan reason to deny.
Question is, DOES PR want statehood?
There are 3 options, independence, statehood, and status quo.
Plebiscites (non-binding) can be referred to (slightly) exceeding >50% in favor of statehood – but are somewhat problematic because of (1) not actually including all three choices and (2) very VERY low numbers of eligible voters participating and (3) push-pull language in the plebiscite language – non-neutral language in polls is a classic method to predetermine a poll result to the result wanted.
As for DC – folks living in DC complaining about not being fully represented is comparable to folks moving next to an airport complaining about living next to an non-new airport – or farm adjacent folks complaining about the farm that was there long before they were.
In addition, if DC deserves separate statehood so does any of the top 100 biggest cities in the US. Do we really need 300 senators?
PR is an island of grifters most of whom care more about the PR then the US. They all don’t speak English. Occasionally they sprout a terrorist group that kills a bunch of people in the US.
I don’t care what they want. Say bye bye one way or another to them. Either force them to be independent or just sell the damn territory even if you have to pay someone to take it.
How about we trade them to Denmark for Greenland?
I suggested that in one of the Greenland threads. I’d be all for it. Or to UK for Diego Garcia.
We need a hell of a lot more representatives. That plan fails to scale.
True, but what’s wrong with partisan reasons. Even if PR wanted statehood I would want the GOP to do all it could to stop it, unless it were balanced with a new state that’s likely to be Republican. (Bearing in mind, of course, that these things can’t be accurately predicted. When Alaska and Hawaii were admitted as a balanced pair, everyone expected Alaska to go with the Dems and Hawaii with the Reps, but the opposite occurred.)
The vast majority of the ‘best’ ideas are inherently ‘partisan.’ In fact, the very concept of all of us making our own decisions in our own best interest, resulting in the best ideas at the societal level, is inherently an enlightenment concept. Hobbes stated that self interest is a key driver of social order.
So yeah, I say that letting a bunch of lazy, grifting islanders become a state is a ragingly idiotic idea. Ditto with a bunch of inner city lay-abouts and criminals who have been raised on welfare for generations. They will most certainly lock onto the government tit in short order and reliably pull the Dim lever forever, thus enabling the federal government to stick it’s thumb further up my @ss.
Fu*k that.
The problem for d/prog is a demographic bulge of boomer voters and a few silent gen. That’s where their reliably consistent voters are concentrated. Especially Females. That’s great for d/prog till you realize the boomers are dying off at about 10K per day. They gotta get it done soon b/c they are on a demographic clock. Not.just their die hard boomer voters dying off but the internal shift coming due in the next Census. Once that’s baked into it the d/prog are behind the 8 ball nationally.
By contrast Gen X was pretty solidly center/right populist. Younger voters age 18-29 had a big shift from ’20 to ’24. with Hispanic Men +19 towards MAGA, Hispanic Female +14 towards MAGA and Black men +15 towards MAGA.
In sum there are far fewer ‘yellow dog’ d/prog after the boomers and Gen X which grew up with Reagan are majority lean to the right. There’s shift among younger generations away from d/prog towards center right populism with larger moves among men of all ‘races’ but also Hispanic Females. The lag is AWFL childless Karen cat ladies, Black females and boomers.
IF and when they take both Congress and pres, their first move is going to be amnesty. After that, the rest won’t matter.
Oh agree with that 100%. The d/prog gotta get/create/import new voters b/c the ones they got are either dying off (boomers/silent gen) or beginning to abandon them in worrisome numbers. Hispanics may become a net + for the GoP overall. If the GoP can pick up 35%+ of black males and get 20%+ of black females they d/prog begin losing Senators and Governors in purple/swing States as they turn Red not just adding HoR margin of control as reapportionment puts another 12-25 CD into Red States. Add to that the potential for at least initial steps to remove ‘majority minority’ CD at SCOTUS and we can see exactly why the d/prog are hell bent on open borders and amnesty.
Of course the Democrats/ Marxist would want more Democrat/ Marxist states?
Maybe they are emptying out CA and NY purposively in order to seed red states and turn them.
Just what we need in conservative voting districts – more wealthy retards, like “Stinky” Soros & Sons, and the Rockefellers.
Along with more demonrat/marxist/stupids on the “Supreme” Court.
Troll a $20 bill thru his neighborhood, he will be right on it.
Thus is how desperate they are to maintain power and the Kool-Aid crowd hears free and stops listening.
As annoying as the Filibuster is when R’s have Senate control, preventing crap like this is why it exists.
The Senate is supposed to be a more deliberative body than the House, not swinging back and forth to each extreme as the pendulum swings.
Regardless of who controls the Senate, there are always hundreds of House bills that die there. Which is a VERY good thing.
Moving to require a speaking filibuster doesn’t interfere with the ‘deliberative process’ or the ‘cooling function’ of the Senate. IMO removing the fake filibuster and requiring a speaking filibuster enhances it as well as provides opportunity for public to hear/see the debate. If one side is reading DR Seuss instead of making convincing arguments germane to the legislation the part of the public that can be tempted to switch sides will eventually take notice. Plus only 1/3 of Senators are up for election at a time so that’s another stabilizing factor. Though a string of filibuster fights and more actual time on the floor v away from DC may cause some turnover when the infirm and elderly stoke out.
I’d like to see them actually try that, see how it plays out.3
At a minimum, it would be entertaining to see how many of them are physically incapable of standing up and speaking for more than five minutes in any given week.
Why is it that the worst people that this country has ever produced all seem to have such incredible longevity?
Isn’t there a volcano somewhere that Gollum can jump in?
That is exactly what they intend to do, little shriveled punk. May you all soon realize that Satan’s followers go directly to the black fires down under. Hope you’ll know that soon.
Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that self-inflicted swamp gas enemas are not a good idea, especially when one’s head is perennially ensconced in one’s backside. QED: James “Serpent Head” Carville.
I guess the old fool doesn’t recognize that the only reason that they didn’t do that in 2021-2024 is that the filibuster was still in place, thanks to two dissenting Dems. If Thune didn’t have his head up his derriere the last 6 years, he’d recognize that, and would have the filibuster gone by now.
Democrats want one thing, and that is not “democracy”. It is ONE PARTY RULE. If you doubt that, see CA.
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