David Axelrod: “The irony of all of this is the Republican establishment that loads Ted Cruz may be stuck with him as their best…”

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

I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.

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

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.