It's absolutely true that it's a roll of the dice for the country to elect somebody to the presidency who has never held public office a day in his or her life.
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Gergen discusses the risks of electing a president without prior public office experience, specifically referencing Ben Carson and Donald Trump.
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Never before has the opposition undermined the legitimacy of a new President before he has even taken office to anything like this degree or in this fashion.
You know, his comments today about doctors are, you know, are milking the system so they can get rich off the pandemic. It is just so odious, and to go after Laura Ingraham like that was just wrongheaded.
I think a lot of Americans are relieved to have a politician who's not in your face and not yelling at you and not lying to you.
I think he's become much more erratic. But these rallies really are obscene. We are, as I said, staggering from one obscenity to the next as a people.





