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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 24, 2019

This is a little bit different than the Mueller investigation... It's shocking not just because of the way in which he appeared to be delivering this message but in the references to the attorney general and involving the United States…

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Sep 24, 2019

I also wonder... about the recently departed NSA director, John Bolton. He certainly has an incentive to be forthcoming on this having been apart from it and now being dispatched by Trump.

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Sep 23, 2019

The president has already put himself in a jam with his own admissions. He has acknowledged that he talked to the president about specifically about the Biden case, which is incredibly damning.

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Sep 23, 2019

I think this thing is fraught with danger for Democrats, which is why Speaker Pelosi has proceeded cautiously here.

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Sep 11, 2019

I think that he is his own worst enemy in the end of the day.

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Sep 11, 2019

I think this -- the constant anxiety of waking up to a president's tweets and tantrums and often gratuitous battles and the chaos around him is just exhausting.

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Sep 11, 2019

The person most capable of defeating Donald Trump is Donald Trump. If Democrats are smart, they'll let him do the job.

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Sep 10, 2019

Biden is in the lead. That lead is shrinking and not moving in the right direction.

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Sep 10, 2019

You want a national security adviser who is coordinating the processes among all the agencies that deal with these issues on behalf of the president and essentially exercising some oversight on those cabinet agencies.

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Sep 10, 2019

I think Biden's strategy from the beginning has been to posit himself as the guy who's taking on Donald Trump.

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Sep 9, 2019

The economy is particularly important because this was going to be the bulwark. This was going to be the thing that was going to carry him to victory.

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Sep 9, 2019

the Trump campaign mission is going to have to be to annihilate the Democratic opponent in 2020

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Aug 19, 2019

Absolutely. Look, I'm the son of a Jewish immigrant who fled tropes like that when he came, he and his family came to America and has terrible meaning to many, many Jewish-Americans.

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Aug 7, 2019

If Donald Trump were to actually embrace it, I think he'd give cover to a lot of Republicans who might want to vote for some form of universal background checks.

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Aug 7, 2019

President Obama called it the day of Sandy Hook tragedy, the worst day of his presidency.

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Aug 7, 2019

It would have been so great, it would have been so important for the country if he just could have risen above this one time.

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Jul 28, 2019

core to Joe Biden's appeal is that he was viewed as the Trump slayer and that he was the least risky choice.

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Jul 22, 2019

He wants to stick to the text of his report. He doesn't want to go beyond it.

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Jul 22, 2019

And the FBI director testified just this day that the Russians are still active and we have the President of the United States dismissing it as a hoax and as a witch hunt and, you know, this is deeply concerning. It should be.

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Jul 16, 2019

He wants to elevate these four young members of Congress to make them the emblem of the Democratic Party.

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Jun 26, 2019

Sanders is going to want to burnish his credentials as the leader of the left. He is losing some of that support to Elizabeth -- to Elizabeth Warren.

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Jun 26, 2019

I think this is a big night for him, and I think he has -- it's interesting. The oldest and the youngest candidates are going to be standing next to each other. And for both of them, age is an issue in different ways.

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