David Axelrod: “He is going to be in the lead this story if he showed up and he's going to be in the lead if he doesn't show up.”

I hope we’re not all complicit in assisting an unintended suicide.

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

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

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.