David Axelrod: “This has been a concern. I will point out a couple of things.”

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.

I think Democrats would be very foolish to go all Marjorie Taylor Greene here and WWE stuff and so on. I think they should respond. But I don't think they should, you know, heckle and do the kinds of things that some have talked about.

Unless the economy and his numbers rebound, Republicans are going to feel less willing to follow him blindly.