this president wants to reverse 50 years of history and norms and return this these agencies to a very, very political footing.
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.
If I were advising him I would say you won, act like a president. Try and bring the country together.
If he had done that, there would have been a full primary campaign and we -- and maybe the vice president would have emerged from it.
They had an easier campaign to run. They just needed to say over and over and over again, she was Joe Biden's vice president.
There are these periods of renewal, but they require you to think deeply, not to lash out, but to think deeply about what are we missing?
People in this country are frustrated about what happened at the border. They're frustrated about people who break the law, they come into the country.
You can't win national elections that way, and it certainly shouldn't be that way for a party that fashions itself as the party of working people.
Whatever deportations Donald Trump has, he will say is the largest mass deportation in history.
Look, in Pennsylvania, you know, Josh Shapiro has really a lot of support in rural areas and small towns.
But I think in my personal view, there's a better chance that were surprised tomorrow by Kamala Harris doing better, particularly with women voters, than what we saw in '16 and '20, where Trump overperformed, you know, some of the data.
Donald Trump has had a terrible close to this campaign, not just the rally, but every single day he seems to take his campaign into states that they don't want to be and he's not delivering the message that the campaign is delivering on…
If that is the case in these individual states, she will win those states.
I think the last election was a well-run election to be honest with you. It was tainted by the allegations of Trump, but it was the most scrutinized election in history.
I think everything he's doing is pumping up the vote for her in suburban areas around the country and with women.
I think humility is the order of the day because no one really knows. It's so close. Nothing would shock me.
I think he was in better shape than he is in this week. And you want to close strong in a presidential race.
I thought Erin last week when she said that he's going to come with an enemies list. I'm going to come with a to-do list was a very effective frame.
She is trying to chart a path forward and talk about where she would lead and the Trump campaign is trying to assign all of the burdens of Biden to her.
What they need to do in the next seven days is, used. Donald Trump's negative energy against him in a kind of political jujitsu.
She needs to talk to those people and she needs to talk to them about their lives and what she wants to do to help improve their lives.
Donald Trump has become the place where this race lives and dies, the main character here.
There's two different kinds of change at play here. One is changed linear change, change from the Biden agenda and the Trump campaign has tried to make the point that she would be an extension of them.





