On the recordNovember 19, 2019
The president wanted to dirty up a potential opponent who he thought was a particular challenge to him in the upcoming election.
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Axelrod discussed the motivations behind the president's actions regarding Ukraine.
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I mean, he's president of the United States. He was elected. They should be there.
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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.
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I think the darker interpretation of what we saw today is that they were setting up a pretext, he and the vice president for walking away from Ukraine and blaming Zelenskyy for it.
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