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.
I think Ted Cruz's coming here thinking he's going to be a candidate for president in 2020, and he wants to make common cause with his conservative troops.
I think it will help him. I think they've become household names after this.
I can't wait for November 9th when we can start rebuilding this party, and I want to lead that.
I think, as I said earlier, one of the missions for Donald Trump is to try and unify the Republican base and these speeches are helpful in that regard.
Donald Trump is getting 14 percent in the 'Wall Street Journal' poll this morning, 14 percent Hispanic vote. That's half of what Mitt Romney got.
I think it is important in his case. I generally agree that vice presidential candidates rarely win elections for you. They can sometimes help you lose elections.
I think it gives a lot of people who aren't on the list pause the people who took themselves out of the hunt earlier.
President Obama has himself talked about how he sometimes doesn't recognize the optics of these situations.
I think first of all, ascertaining what the source of this was. It appears to be ISIS.
This is an ongoing struggle and sadly, I think it's going to continue.
I think she used Donald Trump's own quotations to hang him on the issue of temperament and lack of experience.
That is a big test. And, you know, we have yet to see whether he can meet it.
This was an all out assault on Donald Trump's preparedness and on his temperament.
I would be certainly she should be at least a little concerned about some of these early polls not just in New Jersey but some other states.
I think that he has been very resistant to these attacks during the primaries and Anderson at the end of the day I don't even think the substance of the attacks are what ultimately are going to be problematic for Trump, it's the way he…
I said a long time ago that presidential campaigns are MRI's for the soul, and, you know, the pressure gets retch it up, the higher you go and he's now feeling some of that.
I think it's very hard for him. It's quite different than 2008 when Barack Obama was a minority candidate.
I've said from the beginning that if Donald Trump gets close, they would have a very difficult decision to make.
We're really entering a critical period here. There's a thousand delegates at stake in the next 10 days, 300 in the next four days.
Every reaction, every action in politics creates a reaction. I do think Donald Trump is going to encourage people to come to the polls in the fall as he has in the primary if he's the nominee.
This was a situation where he got asked a question and you can see him trying to make the calculation as to how to answer those questions.
I think that can boost Kasich, it can boost some of the more moderate Republican candidates.
We should point out, this is different terrain than Iowa. This is sort of a home game for Donald Trump.





