He's coming with an enemies list. I'm coming with a to-do list. My to-do list is going to be your concerns. He's going to be worried about himself and how he wreaks vengeance on all those he thinks have trespassed on him.
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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 it's a dead-even race. I think you know, you see these models, analytic models that have Trump ahead by a whisker, but that essentially is a tied race.
The question at the end of the day for voters is, are they voting on change from Biden's policies or change from Trump's politics and I think that's why this is such close race.
I thought in your town hall with her, the best line of the night for her was when she said he's going to come to office with an enemies list and I'm going to come to office with a to-do list.
If you add them all up, what they say is this is a really tight race, too tight for any poll to accurately predict.
Today, Trump was threatening to jail election workers after the election if he senses any improprieties and so on.
I think the contrast is important though. I think the contrast of a guy who's totally consumed by himself and his vengeance and someone who's going to wake up every day thinking about how she can do constructive things to help people and…
You have to talk about the experience of people in this economy, and she needs to make that connection here and talk about how her policies will actually help.
I think this is a sacred process that distinguishes democracies from dictatorships and this is the way we grab the wheel of history and turn it in the direction we think is right.
democracy is a battle between cynicism and hope. And he's always chosen the hope side of that equation and that is infectious.
I do question that. I mean, you're right. He was all over before the -- before he became the nominee when he's campaigning for vice president, that's when he turned the word weird into kind of a thing for awhile on one of those interviews.
I think Vance is going to go after him hard and the question is, how does he counter punch without sacrificing that sort of warmth and accessibility that has been his hallmark and has made him popular in the short run.
Mike Pence dissented once in four years. Nobody talks about the Pence years.
I think the majority of people are ready to vote against Donald Trump. And the question is, can they be comfortable with Kamala Harris?
She needs to make a stronger case that she feels this and not just the particulars of the policy.
He was clear with Republicans, do not pass this bill because it will only help Democrats, we want the issue.
If she can stay on the issues and he goes off the rails, it could be a good night.
This is her job interview, her night to further introduce herself to the American people.
In this campaign, Donald Trump said, I want to abolish the Affordable Care Act again.
If she persuades people that she's that person, she's going to win this election.
He can vote for the initiative in his own state to overturn the six weeks and he appeared to be saying that he was going to do that and then his campaign whistled him off of that because he's in this situation of his own creation.
Last night, Kamala Harris said that Trump was not -- Trump was an unserious man. This is -- but he could have very serious consequences if he's elected. This is an unserious move, but can have very serious consequences in this election.
They believe that he's going out of the race in these battleground states and yield the presidency to Donald Trump.





