You can't deliver a, you know, homilies about unity in the Oval Office during the day and then run off to rallies at night where you deliver extemporaneous jeremiads about the evil opposition and the -- at the media as the enemy of the people.
Axelrod criticizes Trump's contradictory messages regarding unity and his rhetoric at rallies.
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I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
There's no doubt about that. But I also want to say this. You know, all presidents sort of feed off of perceptions of the person who came before and they want to position against what people found lacking in the person that came before.
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