David Axelrod: “The economy is challenged because of inflation. Republicans thought they had clear sailing to a big year. Trump has…”

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.

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

So the man remained, passed out in the blazing noon sun. I guess that’s how the City of Chicago deals with such situations.

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