Bernie Sanders Tells James Carville To Start His Own Party — Democrats’ Civil War Just Went Public
Bernie Sanders just made the Democratic Party’s civil war impossible to hide.
Asked whether the party had room for both veteran strategist James Carville and far-left streamer Hasan Piker, Sanders did not hesitate.
Carville could leave.
Sanders told CNN that if the longtime Clinton operative does not want to share a party with Piker and Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed, he can “start his own party.”
The full interview shows Sanders choosing the new socialist wing over the old Democratic establishment in real time:
Sen. Bernie Sanders predicts @AbdulElSayed can win in a general election in Michigan and says he’d pick Hasan Piker over James Carville for the Democratic Party if faced with a choice. My full interview: pic.twitter.com/eP1WCmpHed
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) August 5, 2026
Fox News reports that CNN’s Abby Phillip pressed Sanders on which man he would choose after Carville vowed he would not remain in a party where Piker became a force. Sanders called it “not much of a choice,” defended Piker’s place in a Democratic big tent and pointed to El-Sayed’s primary victory over Rep. Haley Stevens as evidence that the party’s left wing is gaining power.
Sanders also defended Piker when Phillip raised the streamer’s notorious 2019 statement that America “deserved” the September 11 attacks. Sanders called the remark dumb but argued that Piker says many things that make sense to his large audience and should not be canceled over one statement.
Piker later said he did not literally mean America deserved the attack, describing the comment as criticism of U.S. foreign policy.
Carville’s objection is bigger than one internet personality.
He sees Piker as the public face of a movement pulling Democrats toward open socialism and communism.
And he has spent months warning that the party is walking into a general-election disaster.