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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 5, 2016

The fact is that they are getting the numbers they need and the numbers they want out of the states. And the race has stabilized in their favor.

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Nov 5, 2016

In order to win, you have to achieve a certain number. In a country that's becoming more and more diverse, you can't alienate yourself from the most -- the most dynamically growing parts of the country and expect to win.

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Nov 5, 2016

Everything about Donald Trump is about Donald Trump, right? He's the center of every script; he's the center of every activity; and that's the way he's run his presidential campaign.

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Nov 5, 2016

If I'm the Clinton campaign, and yes, I think the campaign was roiled. It settled in about the middle of the week. It's been inching their way in the last few days. They feel they have this race.

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Nov 5, 2016

I do think that this did some damage to her in this way. I think there were a lot of Republicans who were having a hard time saying, I'm going to vote for Donald Trump.

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Nov 5, 2016

If he can't win those 29 votes, I honestly don't see a viable path for him.

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Nov 5, 2016

We are becoming a more diverse country. Each election, the Republican Party was right after 2012 when they said we need to have an outreach to Hispanic Americans.

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Nov 3, 2016

It is nuts to assume that Hillary Clinton is going to get the same level of enthusiasm and turn out as Barack Obama did the first African-American president.

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Nov 3, 2016

What you've seen are large numbers of Hispanics registering to participate in this election, many of them, Puerto Ricans. And that is something that gives a lot of encouragement to Democrats in Florida and could make a really big…

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Nov 3, 2016

When your opponents' poll numbers are going low, you go high. But when the race is close, and it's time to slug it out.

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Nov 3, 2016

But she has the same problem with -- let me just say, she has same problem with young African-Americans...

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Nov 3, 2016

Court after court around the country have thrown out many of these laws on the basis of the fact that they were discriminatory.

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Nov 2, 2016

I can tell you that tomorrow in Pennsylvania Donald Trump himself will be there at the giant arena in Hershey.

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Nov 2, 2016

I thought myself that they had abandoned Pennsylvania a week or so ago.

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Nov 2, 2016

The difference between them is that the Clinton campaign is in control of its open ground game.

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Nov 2, 2016

It could be that you'll have a President Trump and that will be interesting. The odds are right now that you'll have a President Clinton.

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Nov 2, 2016

Donald Trump has to win Pennsylvania or breakthrough in some other big, blue state.

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Nov 2, 2016

He has an enormous problem with women and in one poll recently in the last couple of days trailing by 20 points in Pennsylvania.

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Oct 26, 2016

She's not done very well on the whole honesty and trustworthy measure throughout.

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Oct 26, 2016

It will likely not impact the views of those people who have decided to vote for her, many whom are motivated by their feelings about Donald Trump.

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Oct 20, 2016

I expect to see a flood of Republican money into these battleground Senate races, in the coming days, as a result of concerns that they're going to lose the Senate.

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Oct 20, 2016

I think Paul Ryan's in a very difficult position, because of the House seats that are going to be lost, almost all of them are going to be among relatively moderate Republican House members, mostly in the suburbs, who were hurt by Trump.

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Oct 20, 2016

I think that there's a turnout issue whether they think. They don't show up because they think it's rigged or more likely because they think it's over, they're -- you know, this hurts down-ballot -- it hurts down-ballot candidates.

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Oct 18, 2016

If he believes that he's on a trajectory to win this election, then she's not telling him the truth because she can read polls.

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Oct 18, 2016

Donald Trump has been on a rampage for the last few weeks trying to rally the base.

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