David Axelrod: “It's a slog. And you really need to think about whether you want to put yourself through that.”

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

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 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.

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