Chester James Carville Jr. is an American political consultant who has strategized for candidates for public office in the United States, and in 23 nations abroad. He gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Carville co-hosted CNN’s Crossfire along with associate Paul Begala from 2002 until the show’s cancellation in 2005. He is married to political consultant Mary Matalin.
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Chester James Carville Jr. is an American political consultant who has strategized for candidates for public office in the United States, and in 23 nations abroad. He gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful presidential campaign of then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton. Carville co-hosted CNN’s Crossfire along with associate Paul Begala from 2002 until the show’s cancellation in 2005. In 1992, Carville helped lead Bill Clinton to a win against George H. W. Bush in the presidential election. He is married to political consultant Mary Matalin. He has lectured in political science at both Tulane University and Louisiana State University. In 1993, he was honored as a three-term member of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He served a two-year enlistment in the U.S. Marine Corps, from 1966 to 1968, where he was stationed stateside, in San Diego. He later worked as a junior high school science teacher. He was trained in consulting by Gus Weill, who in 1958 had opened the first advertising firm that specialized in political campaigns in the state capital in Baton Rouge. In an October 1992 interview televised on Louisiana Public Broadcasting’s Louisiana Legends with Political Consultant Gus Weil, he spoke on the campaign of Gennifer Flowers. He said that Flowers got’sucker-punched’ by the mainstream media and that he was ‘a lot more expensive than she is’ Carville has been a CNN contributor since 2013. He continues to appear frequently on cable news programs, in podcasts and in his public speeches.
In 2013, he joined Fox News Channel as a contributor. The following year, he became a contributor to the network’s flagship news program, “Larry King Live” Carville is a father of two children, one of whom is a high school senior. He lives in Louisiana with his wife and two step-children, and has a son and a daughter-in-law. He also has a step-son, a son-in law, a grandson, and a great-grandson. He works as a political consultant for a private firm in New Orleans, Louisiana. His wife is a former Texas state legislator Lloyd Doggett’s unsuccessful US Senate campaign for the open Texas Senate seat. In 2004, he co-founded a political consulting firm with his partner, PaulBegala, called Carville, Begala, & Weill. In 2007, Carvile and Begala founded the firm, Carve, which is still in business today. Carve is a married father-of-two and a grandfather of three children. He currently lives with his family in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, and works for a consulting firm in Louisiana. He previously served as a litigator at McKernnan, Beychok, Screen and Pierson, a Baton Rouge law firm, from 1973 to 1979. In 1991, he helped lead appointed incumbent Senator Harris Wofford of Pennsylvania back from a 40-point poll deficit over White House hand-picked candidate Dick Thornburgh. It was during this campaign that the ‘it’s the economy, stupid’ strategy was first implemented.
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