David Axelrod: “The whole premise of the Romney campaign is a negative premise.”

I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.

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 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.

The nature of presidential politics is the bar gets raised constantly.