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David Axelrod: “I think they'd love to be able to go back to that and they would like this issue to recede and go back to those winning…”

On the recordOctober 4, 2018
I think they'd love to be able to go back to that and they would like this issue to recede and go back to those winning issues that had them in a relatively good position before all this started.
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David Axelrod
Democratic · Illinois

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Axelrod discusses how Democratic senators may prefer to focus on health care rather than the Supreme Court issue.

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