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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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Sep 22, 2020

He is going to do better on election night that he ultimately will because 60% or 62% of his voters say they're going to vote on Election Day, their votes will be counted on Election Day.

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Sep 22, 2020

This comes very close to that. And it's really, really alarming and something not just Democrats, but Republicans should be appalled by and should speak out about.

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Sep 22, 2020

Well, look, I can live with him not participating in the ceremony of the transfer of power, but he's basically giving license to people to take to the streets if they don't like the result of the election.

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Sep 22, 2020

Either he wins or the election was rigged. There's no third option.

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Sep 10, 2020

One of the real tragedies and dangers of this administration has been the subjugation of all our institutions to the President's political needs.

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Sep 10, 2020

And all it comes down to what Dr. Fauci said in Bob Woodward's book, which is the only thing he cares about is reelection.

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Sep 2, 2020

That's going to happen on November 3rd, that is a direct result of all of these combined efforts of the Russians, the President.

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Sep 2, 2020

the President has been for months and months and months, assaulting without any evidence or justification, the integrity of mail-in voting.

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Sep 2, 2020

the fact that they're doing it and working the same side of the street as the President of the United States is what makes it so insidious.

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Aug 31, 2020

The President of the United States more than having the responsibility to tell the truth really has the responsibility not to foment violence in a way that leads to loss of life.

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Aug 22, 2020

The country, a majority of people think we're on the wrong track, a majority of people think the economy is in a bad shape. And he needs a boost here.

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Aug 22, 2020

One of the smart things that the Biden campaign did last week was really root Joe Biden in Middle America, family, faith, connection to the military, you know, working class roots in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and the industrial heartland.

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Aug 22, 2020

He's in the middle of a, as you point out, serial crises, which he has not been deemed to have handled well.

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Aug 22, 2020

This is going to be a pseudo convention just like you had a pseudo rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma City with Donald Trump, a pseudo 4th of July extravaganza now Rushmore this summer.

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Aug 15, 2020

Yes, you know, I actually think this could be a very good week. It's an important week. You don't, in a campaign, get many opportunities to get millions of Americans together to watch what you're doing.

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Aug 15, 2020

I think on the one hand, no one can speak to Joe Biden's qualities and the longing this country has for a restoration of decency than Barack Obama, and he'll be very powerful.

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Aug 15, 2020

Yes. No, I think he -- well, obviously he's a organizing tool among some Republicans who don't like him. But remember, he is the most popular politician in America.

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Aug 2, 2020

If the President wants to be helpful, if he is worried about the integrity of the election, then help states fund their operations to deal with the added volume of ballots they're going to get and don't try and undermine the Postal…

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Aug 2, 2020

Yes, that's true. Well, first of all, to put this in context, remember, the President lost the last election by three million votes in the popular vote, and after the fact, tried to spin it as massive fraud and appointed a national…

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Jul 23, 2020

So he's had a very rapid epiphany on this subject of what is safe and what is not.

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Jul 23, 2020

Yes, I'm not sure that -- I mean, there is some logic to it in the sense that there is a desperation, I think on the part of a lot of parents to get their kids back in school.

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Jul 13, 2020

He's an opportunist and he's exploiting race, because he thinks it's to his political advantage to do that.

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