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David Axelrod

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David Axelrod is a prominent Democratic political consultant and strategist, best known for his role as the chief strategist for Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012. Born on February 22, 1955, in New York City, Axelrod has played a significant role in shaping modern political communication and campaign strategies. He served as a senior advisor to President Obama during his administration, focusing on messaging and public relations. Axelrod is also a co-founder of the consulting firm AKPD Message and Media.

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Nov 10, 2021

You can't talk people into believing that the economy is strong if they're not feeling it.

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Nov 10, 2021

If it continues into next fall, it will hurt them a lot Anderson.

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Nov 10, 2021

When you're sitting in that chair, you're going to get blamed for everything.

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Nov 10, 2021

There are elements of this plan that will actually help, help by improving productivity with some of the advancements that the infrastructure bill bring.

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Nov 4, 2021

the country is restive right now, Anderson. The country is anxious.

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Nov 4, 2021

Anyone who believes -- any Democrat who believes that they can somehow separate themselves out from a President of their own party and be successful if he is not viewed as successful hasn't studied history.

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Oct 28, 2021

Education has become a much larger issue because they've sent -- they've focused on it in the last few weeks.

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Oct 28, 2021

If you say this is going to tell us what's going to happen in '22 and '24, if the results come back badly on Tuesday, well, you've written the story.

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Oct 18, 2021

I mean, there may be a handful that will vote on this contempt citation because we did see 10 vote for impeachment.

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Oct 18, 2021

Seventy eight percent of Republicans embrace the big lie. They're worried about primary challenges. They're worried about losing their careers.

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Oct 13, 2021

He belittled and harassed election officials across the country to get his way, he encouraged his own loyal Vice President Mike Pence to take extraordinary and unconstitutional actions during the electoral college count.

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Oct 13, 2021

There is a reign of terror in the Republican Party and people who want to get reelected, the table stakes is to at least have some sort of passing acknowledgement that maybe there was something wrong with the last election.

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Oct 7, 2021

the President of the United States was trying to overturn a free and fair election in order to retain power and used his office to pressure people in the Justice Department and elsewhere in states to do his bidding on this.

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Oct 7, 2021

It's not there to shield discussions about potential criminal activity. It's not there to shield discussions about aiding and abetting an insurrection.

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Sep 21, 2021

The idea that Biden can fail, but the Democratic Party will succeed in 2022 is nonsense. History has proven that.

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Sep 13, 2021

It is really, really destructive for democracy if people fundamentally their reaction to an election is, if I don't win -- I'm going to claim fraud.

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Sep 13, 2021

Polling indicates that they were breaking heavily for Newsom and I think part of it is they don't want to be associated with the right wing extreme Republicans.

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Sep 2, 2021

It is concerning that he has a 57% disapproval rating among independents right now.

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Aug 17, 2021

Sometimes you just have to say, we screwed up, and we're going to fix it and we're going to figure out why this happened.

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