David Axelrod: “I think Democrats did better than expected, in the midterm elections, for the same reason.”

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.

The place where it has influenced politics is in Canada. Now, Justin Trudeau is not -- he's stepping down. He's going to step down. But there's going to be an election in the next few days for the new Liberal Party leader and then there…

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

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