Jennifer Palmieri on Carville Saying the Dems Should Calm Down: I Don’t Understand Why He Has To Be Such Debbie Downer

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PALMIERI: "Yeah, I don't understand why James has to be such a Debbie Downer. I don’t understand why we need to step on our enthusiasm. Seriously, you know, Democrats are enthusiastic, they're excited. They’re excited to have a ticket. They're excited to have an answer to the question about who is the best person to take on Donald Trump. And I don’t think anybody is unaware of how nasty the Republicans can get and that it is a difficult race. You know, the vice president has seen a big jump in polling, right? That’s sort of what is hard, is the last two to three percentage points, right? That’s what the whole game is about. But we’ve had a really great week and her numbers are improving. And I think that it’s true that the Republicans are really caught off guard. They don’t quite know how to attack her or, you know, what her ticket is going to end up being. I think having only 100 days is, you know, I agree with Michael Steele, shorter campaigns can be better. You know, it's particularly hard with a woman candidate to get elected in this country, right? We’ve seen that before. When it’s happened in other times, in other countries, it’s happened in this sort of circumstance. It's where the nominee has not gone through a big, long, brutal primary process, like happens in the U.S., but in like a parliamentary system where a small — where the person is presented as the leader of the party to the party -- to the country as a winner, right? That’s what we have here.”