Democratic strategist James Carville said Tuesday the Democrats didn’t have “a real endgame” with their government shutdown strategy but argued no one in the party should be mad with each other.

Carville appeared on former CNN host Jim Acosta’s Substack to discuss lessons learned from the government shutdown, which is expected to end on Wednesday with the House of Representatives set to vote on a federal funding bill.

Acosta noted President Donald Trump said during a Fox News interview this week that Republicans “broke” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

“First of all, the lesson is, everything that everybody says is true,” Carville said.

“There was not a real endgame plan here. It was a simple legislative maneuvering that we didn’t do that well on. There were a couple of po

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