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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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Feb 17, 2019

Look, I think if I were he, I would want to shorten the race as much as possible. He has a lot of assets that he can count on. He's well known, some of the candidates are not.

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Feb 4, 2019

I think he has staked this out as a symbolic pillar of his presidency.

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Feb 4, 2019

I mean, this position that the president has taken on the wall is not a majority view. That's not something she geared in on.

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Feb 4, 2019

So when neo-Nazis march in Charlottesville, you can't say there are good people on both sides.

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Feb 3, 2019

You want to feel like they -- no, they are not relying on their own instincts, particularly when he has no background in any of these areas.

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Feb 3, 2019

He knows better than the generals. He knows better than his intelligence people. He knows better than the Fed chair. He knows better than everyone.

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Jan 31, 2019

The President is worried about his own re-election and he's being told by his allies on the right that if he doesn't do something dramatic to promote the wall that he will face a rebellion within his own party.

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Jan 31, 2019

I think Democrats are wise at this point to define their own messages and define their vision for the country and talk about what the country after Donald Trump should look like and how they're going to tackle those problems that are…

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Jan 27, 2019

Absolute gift to Donald Trump. This would reduce the ceiling.

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Jan 22, 2019

I think one I think genuine and legitimate criticism is I don't think that the speaker would suggest that he not come because she was worried about security.

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Dec 16, 2018

Well, enormous pressure now especially with a Democratic Congress set to take office in January with the power of oversight that hasn't been exercised over the last two years. It's enormous pressure.

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Dec 16, 2018

I think there are so many far flung tentacles of this that the President's problems are far from over.

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Dec 10, 2018

Those walls are closing in on him and the more he feels trapped, the more I think he's going to lash out.

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Dec 9, 2018

I think he misses the other piece of this, which is that the incoming from Congress is going to be very, very intense.

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Dec 6, 2018

we have a president who believes that, you know, that you take whatever you can take, however you can take it and the end justifies the means.

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Dec 6, 2018

the President is surrounded by liars and crooks, and it leads a lot of people to conclude. Well, if all the people around him are lying and crooked, there is a good chance that he might be, too.

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Dec 6, 2018

This was a very bad day for the President of the United States. And I would argue for the country because we only have one president at a time and what we learned today was that the President was implicated by prosecutors in New York in a…

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Nov 20, 2018

I think most presidents would have made it clear to the Saudis that this was unacceptable and that you can't have someone ordering a hit like this and still be dealing with the world as the face of that nation and expect that kingdom and…

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Nov 20, 2018

If an American president can't rely on his own intelligence, then we have a very deep problem.

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Nov 6, 2018

The thing that infuriated Donald Trump was that Sessions recused himself.

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Nov 6, 2018

I think there is a responsibility that comes with the oath you take and if there are egregious constitutional problems, they're going to have to respond to it.

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Nov 6, 2018

I think my hope is that Democrats use this new majority to do what the members who got elected said they wanted to do, which is address the kinds of issues that have been neglected relative to health care, relative to economic security and…

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Nov 4, 2018

The Congress has the power to investigate, and if they have the gumption to investigate that can be very, very irksome.

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