On the recordSeptember 22, 2020
He's saying let's just discount all these right in balance.
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transcripts.cnn.comHe's saying let's just discount all these right in balance.
Axelrod discusses Trump's comments about ballots and their potential impact on public perception of the election's legitimacy.
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Everyone who's watching this should strap on their seatbelts because this is what the next four years are going to be like.
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.
There's a cost to U.S. credibility and there's a cost to Trump's credibility by bluffing like this and then pulling back.
He wanted Zelenskyy to be an accomplice in dirtying up Joe Biden, who he feared as an opponent.