David Axelrod: “They believe that he's going out of the race in these battleground states and yield the presidency to Donald Trump.”

Donald Trump doesn't believe in rules and laws and norms or institutions. He doesn't believe them domestically. He doesn't believe in them internationally and he has defied them to get to this point and back to the presidency.

One of the things that he -- one of the habits of Donald Trump is he doesn't tolerate prosperity very well, his own prosperity. And I think the lesson he's drawn from the last four years is he can get away with anything.

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.

You have to pick your battles in terms of communication.