Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani “might” win the Jewish vote.

Host Ari Melber said, “I keep getting questions about Mamdani. And we got reports now, Barack Obama himself reached out to the Democratic nominee for mayor.”

He asked, “You’ve said you like Mamdani on the economy. What do you make of Obama reaching out? The fact that we’re hearing about it, not everything’s an accident in politics, and what’s coming down the pike in this race that’s now pretty close in the fall?”

Carville said, “Well, I think President Obama was wise to do this. Look, the guy’s — he’s smart, he’s young, all right? He said stupid things in his 20s. Yes. If all of you have not said stupid things in your 20s, rai

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