A healthy majority of the people in this poll said they wanted -- they first wanted a candidate that could beat Trump more than the candidate who reflects their ideological point of view.
David Axelrod: “A healthy majority of the people in this poll said they wanted -- they first wanted a candidate that could beat Trump…”
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Axelrod highlights the importance of electability over ideology among Democratic voters.
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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.
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.
I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.





