CNN political contributor Ashley Allison called veteran Democratic strategist James Carville’s advice to steer aware from the woke agenda “highly problematic.” Allison, a Biden-Harris 2020 consultant, told CNN host Don Lemon on Thursday that Democrats should stop using words like woke and “start telling the truth.”

“In Virginia, yes, Democrats didn’t win but it wasn’t because Terry McAuliffe was a, quote, unquote, ‘woke candidate,'” Allison said. “I even don’t like that term, because what does that mean? A candidate that stands up for poor people, black people, people who don’t think that people should be killed at the hands of police? So, I don’t think James Carville is right on that, and it’s highly problematic if that’s what the Democrats are going to follow.”

“We should stop using words like wokeism, we should stop using terms like critical race theory to describe things that are not actually that,” she said. “We should start telling the truth. And what happened in Virginia is that Youngkin and the Republicans launched a campaign with race baiting language. That is the truth.”