Even David Axelrod, top adviser to former President Barack Obama, has admitted that forcibly removing former President Donald Trump from primary ballots — which some states have already attempted to do, pending court rulings — could be a risky move for Democrats.
Axelrod told CNN on Friday that he had &#8220;very, very strong reservations&#8221; about states like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maine-official-who-booted-trump-from-ballot-visited-biden-white-house-blasted-the-electoral-college" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Maine</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/catastrophic-effects-colorado-gop-asks-supreme-court-to-reverse-trumps-removal-from-ballot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Colorado</a> — where officials have cited the 14th Amendment&#8217;s &#8220;insurrection&#8221; clause and declared Trump &#8220;ineligible&#8221; to run for President in 2024 because of what happened on January 6th, 2021.
&#8220;I have very, very strong reservations about all of this. I do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of people want to vote for him,&#8221; Axelrod said.
As The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/12/30/news/removing-trump-from-the-primary-ballot-would-rip-the-country-apart-david-axelrod/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, Axelrod argued that Trump had essentially set up his campaign to function as part of his legal defense — and Democrats who wanted him removed from the 2024 primary ballot were playing right into his hands.
&#8220;A lot of the motivation for [Trump’s] candidacy was as a legal defense strategy,&#8221; Axelrod explained, adding, &#8220;He wanted to set up a construct … which says that they’re coming after him because he’s running for president, and they’re trying to prevent him from being president.&#8221;
The problem, Axelrod added, was that every attack Democrats had brought against the former president so far appeared to have backfired: &#8220;We’ve run this experiment, he’s only gained since he started getting indicted.&#8221;
Brianne Pfannenstiel, chief political reporter at the Des Moines Register, backed up Axelrod&#8217;s assessment to former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on her Sunday morning MSNBC show.
&#8220;If he&#8217;s being attacked, Republicans in Iowa tend to gravitate even more closely to him&#8230; His support is only getting stronger here in Iowa,&#8221; she said.
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&quot;If he&#39;s being attacked, Republicans in Iowa tend to gravitate even more closely to him&#8230; His support is only getting stronger here in Iowa.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/brianneDMR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@brianneDMR</a> on Iowa polling that shows Trump&#39;s rhetoric makes GOP caucusgoers more likely to support him <a href="https://t.co/Hxb60GaQbD">pic.twitter.com/Hxb60GaQbD</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1741509605971185815?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 31, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Ultimately, Axelrod argued that the best way to defeat Trump was not in removing him from the ballot but in beating him at the ballot box. &#8220;I think if you’re going to beat Donald Trump, you’re going to probably have to do it at the polls.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/david-axelrod" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Axelrod</a>, a former adviser to President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/barack-obama" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Barack Obama</a>, openly pondered on Sunday whether President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> should run for a second term in 2024.
A series of <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1721187586268389858" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posts to X</a> by Axelrod offered an analysis of the political situation in response to The New York Times publishing poll results showing former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> topping Biden in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/politics/biden-trump-2024-poll.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">five out of six</a> key battleground states.
&#8220;It&#8217;s very late to change horses; a lot will happen in the next year that no one can predict &amp; Biden&#8217;s team says his resolve to run is firm. He&#8217;s defied [conventional wisdom] before but this will send tremors of doubt thru the party&#8211;not &#8216;bed-wetting,&#8217; but legitimate concern,&#8221; Axelrod wrote.
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It&#39;s very late to change horses; a lot will happen in the next year that no one can predict &amp; Biden&#39;s team says his resolve to run is firm. He&#39;s defied CW before but this will send tremors of doubt thru the party&#8211;not &quot;bed-wetting,&quot; but legitimate concern. <a href="https://t.co/g6zeWF0T87">https://t.co/g6zeWF0T87</a>
&mdash; David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1721187586268389858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The greatest concern is that his biggest liability is the one thing he can&#8217;t change,&#8221; Axelrod added. &#8220;Among all the unpredictables there is one thing that is sure: the age arrow only points in one direction.&#8221;
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Some of Biden&#8217;s <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/joe-biden-presidential-debates-donald-trump-supporters-drop-out-b719368.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supporters and others</a> have <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/4249496-hey-democrats-who-want-biden-to-drop-out-shut-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called on him</a> to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/james-carville-and-bill-maher-agree-biden-should-not-be-the-2024-nominee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">consider</a> dropping out amid <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/two-thirds-of-americans-say-biden-does-not-deserve-another-term-as-president" target="_blank" rel="noopener">low approval numbers</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/latest-2024-presidential-polling-trump-rises-above-biden-again" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unfavorable polling</a> in a hypothetical 2020 rematch against Trump, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-poll-shows-grim-numbers-for-biden-on-age-question" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trepidation about his fitness</a> to continue serving as commander-in-chief. Already the oldest person to be president at 80, Biden would be 86 at the end of a second term. His tendency to lose his train of thought while speaking and moments caught on camera where he has tripped or fallen over have spurred concerns about his ability to lead effectively.
Axelrod served as a top strategist for Obama&#8217;s two winning presidential campaigns and as an adviser in the Obama White House in which Biden served as vice president. Despite their shared history, Axelrod has consistently voiced worry about <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/david-axelrod-biden-age-political-viability" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden&#8217;s age becoming a political liability</a>. Axelrod did so again on Sunday, even as he touted the incumbent&#8217;s work as president.
&#8220;The [president] is justly proud of his accomplishments. Trump is a dangerous, unhinged demagogue whose brazen disdain for the rules, norms, laws and institutions [of] democracy should be disqualifying. But the stakes of miscalculation here are too dramatic to ignore,&#8221; Axelrod said in his X thread.
&#8220;Only [Biden] can make this decision,&#8221; he added. &#8220;If he continues to run, he will be the nominee of the Democratic Party. What he needs to decide is whether that is wise; whether it&#8217;s in HIS best interest or the country&#8217;s?&#8221;

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Tuesday night&#8217;s debate between two Senate hopefuls in Pennsylvania turned out to be a disaster for one of them.
The performance of Democrat John Fetterman, who suffered a stroke over the summer and has clearly not fully recovered, was so bad even liberals were forced to admit just how truly awful it was.
The train wreck began from the first words the Lurch-like Fetterman uttered: &#8220;Hi. Goodnight, everybody.&#8221;
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Fetterman opens the debate: 
&quot;Hi. Good night everybody.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/mg0X3Iwf5D">pic.twitter.com/mg0X3Iwf5D</a>
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At one point, Fetterman was asked about his position on fracking, with a debate moderator noting he said in a 2018 interview that he completely opposed the practice.
&#8220;I do support fracking &#8212; I don&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t &#8212; I support fracking, and I stand &#8212; and I do support fracking,&#8221; he stammered.
At another point, Fetterman was asked: &#8220;Has the Biden administration overspent?&#8221;
Fetterman: “Here’s what I think we have to fight about inflation here right now.”
Huh?
Throughout the debate, Fetterman proved he is simply not cognitively able to serve in the Senate. His comprehension was so bad after his stroke that he had to have a giant teleprompter erected in order to read what his opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, was saying.
Of course, recovery from a stroke is difficult and everyone hopes Fetterman fully recovers. But it&#8217;s an odd time for him to seek a six-year gig in the world&#8217;s most exclusive debate club, where comprehension in fast-paced oratories is key.
Before the debate, Fetterman&#8217;s campaign said there would be &#8220;awkward pauses&#8221; and &#8220;delays and errors&#8221; as the candidate would be reading closed captioning because of his &#8220;auditory processing issue.&#8221;
Afterward, they declared victory and blamed Fetterman&#8217;s dismal performance on the closed captioning &#8212; which they had demanded.
“We are thrilled with John’s performance. He did remarkably well tonight — especially when you consider that he’s still recovering from a stroke and was working off of delayed captions filled with errors. John won countless exchanges, counter-punched aggressively, and pushed back on Oz’s cruelty and attacks,” said Joe Calvello, Fetterman’s communications director.
Gary Weitman, communications chief for Nexstar, which ran the closed captioning, fired back, saying, &#8220;It is unfortunate that Mr. Fetterman is now criticizing the closed captioning process employed by Nexstar during tonight’s debate.”
&#8220;Both candidates agreed to the technical set-up for the closed captioning process weeks ago, which was implemented at the request of the Fetterman campaign. Both candidates were offered the opportunity for two full rehearsals with the same equipment used in tonight’s debate; Mr. Fetterman chose to do only one,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fetterman-campaign-blames-captioning-system-for-disastrous-debate-tv-company-sets-record-straight">said</a>.
At another point, a debate moderator asked: &#8220;You say that you will hold big corporations accountable for what you call price gouging. How will you do that?&#8221;
Fetterman: &#8220;Exactly. Dr. Oz has never seen an oil company he wouldn&#8217;t swipe right on.&#8221;
And at yet another point, while discussing the minimum wage, Fetterman said: &#8220;How can a man, you know, with with 10 gigantic mansions has &#8212; am willing to talk about willing wage for anybody? Imagine a signal mom trying with two children trying to raise with them.&#8221;
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FETTERMAN: &quot;How can a man, you know, with with 10 gigantic mansion has am willing to talk about willing wage for anybody? Imagine a signal mom trying with two children trying to raise with them.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/hbqePfo8Of">pic.twitter.com/hbqePfo8Of</a>
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After the debate, CNN host Alisyn Camerota said she was unsettled by the spectacle. &#8220;I&#8217;ve interviewed him many times as lieutenant governor,&#8217; she said. &#8220;And he sounds &#8211; he&#8217;s sounded different before the stroke. In the interviews, he was much more, sort of, clear spoken than what I&#8217;m hearing.&#8221;
Some Democrats agree, with David Axelrod, a Democrat strategist who served as a senior adviser to Obama, <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1585077889136939008">writing</a> on Twitter: &#8220;&#8216;Fetterman needed to show he&#8217;s sufficiently recovered, and this debate surely did not help.&#8221;
Another huge liberal, former CNN host Chris Cuomo, said on his NewsNation show he was troubled by the performance.
&#8220;John Fetterman struggled,&#8221; Cuomo said. &#8220;He clearly is dealing with health issues that affect his ability to process and his ability to speak. Clearly, fitness for office is going to be on the table.&#8221;
&#8220;That may not be fair, to some, for me to say &#8211; but if the voters aren&#8217;t talking about it, I&#8217;ll be shocked,&#8221; Cuomo said.
Oh, they&#8217;re talking about it, Chris.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Stories hyping the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6">January 6</a> commission hearings, set to begin Thursday on prime-time television, as a &#8220;political cudgel&#8221; could backfire on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/democrats">House Democrats</a>, a top party adviser warned.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-schiff">Rep. Adam Schiff</a> (D-CA) is promising bombshell new revelations, the panel has hired a former ABC television producer to quarterback the made-for-TV event, and committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) is lobbying members to use the findings to change the way presidents are elected. But David Axelrod, once a top adviser to former President Obama, said Democrats should stick to presenting the facts and let the public decide.
&#8220;If I were a member of the 1/6 committee, stories like these, casting the hearings as a political cudgel, would make me very unhappy,&#8221; Axelrod wrote. &#8220;Conversely, Rs, who hope to dismiss damning findings as partisan, will seize on them. Let facts speak for themselves.&#8221;
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If I were a member of the 1/6 committee, stories like these, casting the hearings as a political cudgel, would make me very unhappy. Conversely, Rs, who hope to dismiss damning findings as partisan, will seize on them. Let facts speak for themselves. <a href="https://t.co/akQ827sAPD">https://t.co/akQ827sAPD</a>
&mdash; David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1534126089110540288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Over the last year, the committee of seven Democrats and two Republicans &#8212; both estranged from the party &#8212; has interviewed 1,000 witnesses and assembled 140,000 documents on the Capitol riots that came two weeks before President Joe Biden&#8217;s inauguration. The panel intends to present its findings in as many as eight prime-time hearings to air live on multiple networks, starting Thursday at 8 p.m. ET. Raskin promised that the hearings would “blow the roof off the House.”
It is not known who will be called to testify during the hearings, as the committee has not released the names of any witnesses.
Democrats are seeking to pin the riots on former President Donald Trump, who contested Biden&#8217;s election and encouraged a crowd attending his speech earlier in the day to &#8220;peacefully&#8221; walk over to the Capitol. When riots erupted, Trump was urged by members of both parties to call for his supporters to stop, but he hesitated before doing so.
Schiff, the California Democrat who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adam-schiff-biggest-problem-with-mueller-report-was-it-wasnt-brought-to-life-through-public-hearings">repeatedly claimed during the Mueller investigation</a> to have seen powerful evidence that former President Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election only to see Trump cleared of the charge, said the public should brace for shocking revelations this week.
“Our goal is to present the narrative of what happened in this country, how close we came to losing our democracy, what led to the violence,” Schiff said. “Americans I think know a great deal already — they have seen a number of bombshells already [and] there’s a great deal they haven’t seen. But perhaps the most important is the public has not seen it woven together, how one thing led to another.”
Raskin, who <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/06/05/january-6-committee-electoral-college-reforms">Axios reported</a> wants to use the hearings as a basis for getting rid of the Electoral College, said the hearings will help viewers understand who was really behind the riots.
“The select committee has found evidence about a lot more than incitement here, and we’re gonna be laying out the evidence about all of the actors who were pivotal to what took place on Jan. 6,” the Maryland lawmaker told the Washington Post.
Republicans claim the slick production is aimed at whipping up Democrat support in the November midterms and say the panel is partisan. Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are the only Republicans on the committee. Kinzinger was drawn out of his district in Illinois, and Cheney faces a tough primary in her home state of Wyoming. Both have found themselves at odds with the GOP leadership since joining the panel.
“The sham January 6th committee is grasping at straws, just like the two failed impeachments,” Indiana Republican Rep. Jim Banks told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-plan-to-reveal-jan-6-committee-findings-with-pomp-and-circumstance">The Daily Wire Monday</a>. “They’re trying to turn their investigation into a taxpayer-funded TV special, instead of getting to the bottom of January 6th because they don’t want to uncover inconvenient truths about Speaker Pelosi’s role in the security failure at the Capitol.”

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President Joe Biden gave a statement Sunday following the news that former Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) had passed away at the age of 88. Biden, as Vice President, presided over Hatch in 2013 as he swore in for his final term in the Senate.
Hatch, whose tenure as the longest-serving Republican senator in history (1977-2019) overlapped with Biden&#8217;s time serving in the deliberative body, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/orrin-hatch-longest-serving-republican-in-history-dies-at-88/">died on Saturday</a>. A statement from the Hatch Foundation read, in part, &#8220;Upon his retirement, Senator Hatch held the distinction of having passed more legislation into law than any other Senator alive. Through his relentless work ethic, Hatch earned a reputation as one of the most effective and bipartisan lawmakers of all time. In total, he sponsored or cosponsored more than 750 bills that became law.&#8221;
&#8220;Biden on the passing of his friend, late GOP UT Sen Orrin Hatch. Biden says Hatch “never humored a bully, or shied from a challenge … saw that energetic, sharp-elbowed Orrin in the many battles we had over tax policy, the right of workers to join a union, and many others,&#8221; Fox News Congressional reporter Chad Pergram tweeted.
&#8220;Biden: Senator Hatch was also a man of deep faith; a gentle soul who wrote songs and poems. This was the Orrin who looked out for the people who often didn’t have a voice in our laws and our country &#8230; He was, quite simply, an American original,&#8221; Pergram&#8217;s second tweet added.
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B) Biden: Senator Hatch was also a man of deep faith; a gentle soul who wrote songs and poems..This was the Orrin who looked out for the people who often didn’t have a voice in our laws and our country..He was, quite simply, an American original.
&mdash; Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1518287874784993280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hatch, who was often praised for his willingness to work across the aisle, lamented the growing divide between the parties during his retirement announcement in 2018.
&#8220;My heart is heavy because it aches for the times when we actually lived up to our reputation as the world’s greatest deliberative body. It longs for the days in which Democrats and Republicans would meet on middle ground rather than retreat to partisan trenches,&#8221; he said.
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) noted his willingness to work with her despite their political — and other — differences of opinion in a tribute posted Saturday evening, just after the news broke.
&#8220;Senator Hatch was kind to me and we worked together well. There were a lot of differences including party, height, age…you name it…but somehow we always looked for common ground. Prayers for his family today,&#8221; she tweeted.
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Senator Hatch was kind to me and we worked together well. There were a lot of differences including party, height, age…you name it…but somehow we always looked for common ground. Prayers for his family today. 🙏
Former Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch dies at 88 <a href="https://t.co/WkXEGlwk8V">https://t.co/WkXEGlwk8V</a>
&mdash; Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) <a href="https://twitter.com/amyklobuchar/status/1518042559020507137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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David Axelrod, who served in former President Barack Obama&#8217;s White House, also remembered Hatch for his kind words — offered even to those who often disagreed with him.
&#8220;At a low moment during my WH years, when a barbed piece about me had been written, I got an unexpected call from Sen. Orrin Hatch, whom I knew, but not well. &#8216;Don&#8217;t let the bastards get you down,&#8217; he said,&#8221; Axelrod tweeted. &#8220;It was a kindness, unusual in Washington, I&#8217;ll never forget. May he RIP.&#8221;
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At a low moment during my WH years, when a barbed piece about me had been written, I got an unexpected call from Sen. Orrin Hatch, whom I knew, but not well. &quot;Don&#39;t let the bastards get you down,&quot; he said. It was a kindness, unusual in Washington, I&#39;ll never forget. May he RIP.
&mdash; David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod/status/1518218103783628800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2022</a></blockquote>
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David Axelrod, one of Barack Obama&#8217;s key advisors on his 2008 campaign trail and confidante during his presidency, has some advice for President Joe Biden: Be humble during your upcoming State of the Union address.
In an opinion column for The New York Times, Axelrod pleaded with Biden to tone down his rhetoric during the speech by painting things as they really are in America while acknowledging the pains and anxieties caused by inflation, COVID-19 restrictions, and violent crime — amongst other woes.
&#8220;The speech will command the largest television audience the president is likely to enjoy this year, and the temptation will be, as it always is, to herald his achievements and declare that we have navigated the storm,&#8221; Axelrod noted.
&#8220;But, Mr. President, proceed with caution.&#8221; he warned.
&#8220;Talk about the things you and Congress have done to help meet the challenges Americans are facing, for sure. Lay out your goals for the future, absolutely. Offer realistic hope for better days ahead,&#8221; he added.
Axelrod then noted — without directly saying it — that Americans think Biden&#8217;s presidency is a disaster.
&#8220;Unsurprisingly, incidents of suicide, drug overdose deaths and violence in our homes and on the streets have grown dramatically. Frustrations with masks, mandates and shifting rules have deepened our political divides. Jobs have come roaring back, raising wages,&#8221; Axelrod claimed of the current situation. &#8220;But those wage increases have been eaten up by inflation, the likes of which we have not seen in four decades. And all the while, the rich have gotten richer.&#8221;
&#8220;The state of the union is stressed. To claim otherwise — to highlight the progress we have made, without fully acknowledging the hard road we have traveled and the distance we need to go — would seem off-key and out of touch,&#8221; Axelrod added. &#8220;You simply cannot jawbone Americans into believing that things are better than they feel.&#8221;
It is unclear if the advice will fall on deaf ears. For example, just last week, Biden admonished NBC&#8217;s Lester Holt for being a &#8220;wise guy&#8221; for asking about inflation, which polls have indicated is a top concern for most American voters. The U.S. government announced inflation rose 7.5% year-over-year, but Biden maintained he was not responsible for it and it was caused by a &#8220;lack of computer chips,&#8221; as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-downplays-question-from-nbcs-lester-holt-about-inflation-youre-being-a-wise-guy">reported</a> by The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>“I think it was back in July, you said inflation was going to be temporary,” Holt said. “I think a lot of Americans are wondering what your definition of temporary is.
“Well, you’re being a wise guy with me a little bit, and I understand that’s your job,” Biden responded. “But look, at the time, what happened was the, uh, let’s look at the reasons for the inflation. And the reason for the inflation is the supply chains were cut off, meaning that the products, for example, automobiles, the lack of computer chips to be able to build those automobiles so they could function, they need those computer chips, they were not available.”</blockquote>
As for not making lofty promises, as Axelrod also warned against, readers should keep in mind the Biden administration has recently promised to cure cancer and bring automobile accidents to zero. To avoid comments like that in the State of the Union, Axelrod told the president, &#8220;Lay out your goals for the future, absolutely. Offer realistic hope for better days ahead. We desperately need it. But recognize that we are still in the grips of a national trauma. Polls show that the vast majority of Americans believe we are on the wrong track, and people will have little patience for lavish claims of progress that defy their lived experiences.&#8221;
The entire op-ed can be read <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/opinion/biden-state-of-the-union.html">here</a>. The State of the Union will air on March 1, 2022, from the nation&#8217;s Capitol Building.
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David Axelrod Warns Biden: You Can’t ‘Jawbone Americans’ Into Believing Things Are Better

State of the Union

Just hours after numerous media outlets called the election for Democrat Joe Biden, CNN was already suggesting he would be a one-term president and that his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), was the “presumed frontrunner” for the next presidential election in 2024.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interviewed Obama campaign manager David Axelrod on Saturday, discussing the network’s declaration that Biden won the election.
“I mean [Harris’] age, Joe Biden’s age, the potential that he may only serve one term,” Cooper said. Harris is 56 while Biden will be 78 if he is inaugurated, should President Donald Trump fail in his legal challenges against the results in several states.
“This is a unique political situation,” Axelrod responded. “Because never has a vice president entered office on the first day as the, kind of, presumed frontrunner for the nomination four years later.”
Axelrod went on to say that Harris is “seen by many on the left of the party as sort of their person in the administration, the person who is going to bring different voices into the discussions,” National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cnn-suggests-harris-is-presumed-frontrunner-for-2024-biden-may-serve-only-one-term/">reported</a>.
“There’s also pressure associated with that. So it’s a really unique situation that she’s going to have to navigate,” Axelrod added.
Cooper went along with Axelrod’s thinking, suggesting Harris should continue to listen to the most left-wing portions of the Democrat Party.
“If she is thinking about the next step, if four years from now President-elect Biden decided not to run, if she does not respond to the left of the party, that is going to harm her down the road,” Cooper said. “And yet, clearly if there is going to be a lot of compromises being done, there’s a lot of folks on the left of the party who are not going to be happy.”
Axelrod slowed down, telling Cooper: “We’re getting way ahead of ourselves.” He then added: “You win a general election by speaking to the broad sweep of the country.”
It should be remembered that Harris dropped out of the Democratic primary before the Iowa caucuses &#8212; the first primary contest. She received exactly zero delegates in the primary due to her campaign’s early fail. Democrats didn’t want her as their presidential candidate, and progressives didn’t even want her as a vice presidential pick.
The New York Times previously <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/politics/kamala-harris-progressives-popularity.html">reported</a> that the progressive wing of the Democratic Party wanted Biden to pick socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) or progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). As the outlet reported, Harris was near the bottom of the progressive list.
Democrats didn’t like Harris then; it’s hard to imagine they’d like her in four years, especially if Biden succeeds (unlikely) in pushing his agenda.
It’s also still unclear whether Biden actually will be the next president on January 20, 2021. Several states haven’t been called yet, and the Trump campaign has filed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-campaign-taking-numerous-new-legal-actions-in-election-battle">numerous lawsuits</a> to contest the elections in several states.
While Biden has given a victory speech, Jenna Ellis, senior legal adviser to the Trump campaign and Trump himself, told The Daily Wire: “Media coordinated efforts are attempting to simply declare Joe Biden the president and ignore the rule of law. There is no official winner until every legal vote is counted accurately, the states certify results, and all legal challenges are resolved.”

Kamala Harris

Anderson Cooper, David Axelrod Already Dub Kamala ‘Presumed Frontrunner’ In 2024

Anderson Cooper

Media Bias

Former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod pushed back against the tone of the statement the Biden campaign released Friday that threatened to forcibly remove President Donald Trump from the White House.
Andrew Bates, the Biden campaign&#8217;s director of rapid response, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-campaign-threatens-to-escort-trump-from-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">responded</a> to President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede by telling Fox, &#8220;As we said on July 19th, the American people will decide the election. And the United States government is perfectly capable of escorting trespassers out of the White House.&#8221;
&#8220;Not sure I would&#8217;ve gone there,&#8221; Axelrod said of the statement while participating in a CNN panel. &#8220;It may be that people are feeling uneasy about the situation because of what the president is saying, but, you know, I don&#8217;t think &#8230; they need to be that aggressive at this point. They&#8217;re gonna win this race. It seems pretty clear they&#8217;re gonna win this race. And there’s no question that Donald Trump, whether he likes it or not, is going to leave the White House.&#8221;
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Though no winner has been officially declared as of Friday night, the lead Trump had in several key states evaporated on Friday morning, diminishing his chances of reelection. Five states — Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Nevada and Alaska — have yet to be called, though Biden leads in the Electoral College vote 264-214.
Trump has yet to indicate an intention to concede, instead claiming during a Thursday press briefing that the election is being &#8220;stolen&#8221; from him.
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-has-no-plans-to-concede-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>President Donald Trump has no plans to concede the 2020 presidential election any time soon, despite Democratic nominee Joe Biden taking the lead in two key states and needing just six electoral votes to win the White House, according to a new report.
A source identified as a “senior aide” told Fox News that “the president’s counselors have been giving him advice in both directions, with some telling Trump that a concession is the correct thing to do, and others pushing him to continue to fight to ensure the vote was correct and legitimate.”
“The source told Fox News that the president is ‘simply skeptical.’ ‘He warned about this for months,’ the aide said. ‘The media didn’t take it seriously, and now, here we are with the scenario.’ The aide said, though, that the president ‘may ultimately concede.’”
“He’s just not there yet,” the aide told Fox.</blockquote>
A statement from Matt Morgan, Trump 2020 campaign general counsel, read in part:
<blockquote>The false projection of Joe Biden as the winner is based on results in four states that are far from final. Georgia is headed for a recount, where we are confident we will find ballots improperly harvested, and where President Trump will ultimately prevail. There were many irregularities in Pennsylvania, including having election officials prevent our volunteer legal observers from having meaningful access to vote counting locations.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-campaign-threatens-to-escort-trump-from-white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Biden Campaign Threatens To Escort Trump From White House</a>

David Axelrod Questions ‘Aggressive’ Biden Campaign Threat To Escort Trump From White House

2020 Election

The Republican National Committee (RNC) launched a new ad Friday that features prominent figures criticizing the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate&#8217;s fitness for office.
The ad, titled &#8220;Joe Biden: Unfit To Lead,&#8221; repeatedly highlights Biden struggling to make a coherent statement and includes critical comments from Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), Obama senior adviser David Axelrod, and Fox News anchor Bret Baier.
Partial transcript:
<blockquote>Narrator: It’s 3 a.m. and your children are safe and asleep. But there’s a phone in the White House and it’s ringing, something is happening in the world. Your vote will decide will who answers that call.
Booker: There’s a lot of people who are concerned about Joe Biden.
Axelrod: He kind bumps along kind of Mr. Magooing his way through this.
Baier: There were some answers Shannon, that were word salad. I mean they were just all over the map.</blockquote>
The ad ends with the words &#8220;Joe Biden: Unfit To Lead&#8221; appearing on the screen.
&#8220;Americans are starting to see firsthand that Joe Biden is unfit to lead, a concern Democrats themselves have expressed since he launched his campaign,&#8221; RNC spokesman Steve Guest said in a statement. &#8220;At a time when law and order is under attack, the choice is clear: leave the security of our nation in the hands of an incompetent lifelong politician who supports defunding the police, or trust President Trump to prioritize the safety of the American people.&#8221;
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The remarks from Sen. Booker were made during a Democrat debate in September in which then-candidate Julian Castro tore into Biden over the issue of fitness for office after he appeared to contradict himself on healthcare.
“The difference between what I support and what you support, Vice President Biden, is that you require them to opt in, and I would not require them to opt in,” Castro said. “They would automatically be enrolled, they wouldn’t have to buy in.”
“They do not have to buy in,” Biden responded.
“Are you forgetting what you said two minutes ago?” Castro fired back. “Are you forgetting already what you said just two minutes ago? I can’t believe that you said two minutes ago that they had to buy in, and now you’re saying they don’t have to — you’re forgetting that.”
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Following the debate, Booker appeared on CNN, where he said, “I think we are at a tough point right now, because there’s a lot of people concerned about Joe Biden’s ability to carry the ball all the way across the end line without fumbling. And I think that Castro had really legitimate concerns about can he be someone in a long, grueling campaign … and has every right to call out.”
“I think there were a lot of moments where a number of us were looking on the stage when he tends to go on sometimes,” Booker continued. “At one point, he was talking about communities like mine listening to record players. I don’t remember the last time I saw a record player … But there are definitely moments where you listen to Joe Biden and you just wonder …”
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Sen. Cory Booker on Julián Castro&#39;s jab at former VP Joe Biden&#39;s memory: &quot;Castro has some really legitimate concerns about, can he be someone in a long grueling campaign that can get the ball over the line? And he has every right to call that out.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DemDebate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DemDebate</a> <a href="https://t.co/rRxWIV0FmL">pic.twitter.com/rRxWIV0FmL</a>
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Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Begins Campaign Bus Tour Through Iowa

‘Unfit To Lead’: RNC Releases New Ad Showing Democrats Criticizing Biden’s Fitness

Bret Baier

Cory Booker

As someone who makes a living in politics, I’m often entertained by or interested in events many consider boring or irrelevant. I do my best to maintain perspective — looking beyond polls and focus groups, talking to neighbors, listening to non-political friends. And I realized that not a single individual person outside the political class mentioned anything — not one word — about the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
I couldn’t help but think of the age-old question: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If an impeachment trial fails in the Senate and no one is there to see it, does it really even matter?
The Trump candidacy and presidency has been a rating bonanza for television news. Not so much for the Nancy Pelosi-Adam Schiff trial.
According to Adweek, just under eight million viewers tuned in for day three of the Senate trial coverage, down 12% from day two and a whopping 29% from day one. Maybe so few watched because so many are busy working in the Trump economy. Among those who did watch, Fox News topped the ratings. I think it’s safe to assume that few among the Fox audience actually flipped on the president.
Even the most partisan Democrats are ready to cancel the show. Former 2008 and 2012 Barack Obama presidential campaigns chief strategist David Axelrod, now a CNN political analyst, shared in a recent CNN interview what he called a “chilling” experience.
“I was in a focus group this morning for the Institute of Politics here at the University of Chicago with some Democratic voters, and it was chilling to hear them talk about this,&#8221; Axelrod said. &#8220;Because impeachment didn’t come up, no one volunteered it, for 80 minutes into the focus group, and we’re right in the middle of the trial.”
Unlike the Clinton impeachment trial, the Schiff show offers little to capture the county’s attention. No yellow stripes on the chief justice’s robe, no sex scandal, no DNA evidence. Just Adam Schiff talking &#8230; and talking &#8230; and talking. Let’s face it. Politics is performance art, the stage is television — and this show is old. It has nothing new. Yes, even the most political among us find it quite boring.
No matter your opinion of Donald J. Trump, you have to give him this — he is not boring. Even before Mr. Trump rode the golden escalator into packed stadiums across the country, more than 20 million tuned in to watch non-political Trump in season one of &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221;
By moving to impeach the president, Pelosi and Schiff took on the greatest political showman in the history of the game, and no one showed up to watch. Little energizes President Trump more than getting bigger ratings than the competition. And in 2020, ratings equal votes at the ballot box.
And the substance? Does it really matter? No one is watching and only the political class cares.
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JOHNSON: The Adam Schiff Show

Impeachment

Nancy Pelosi

Former Obama adviser David Axelrod is worried that another empty Supreme Court seat in the age of President Trump could &#8220;tear the country apart.&#8221; His prediction came shortly after news broke that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had recently completed radiation treatment for cancer on her pancreas.
&#8220;If there is a SCOTUS vacancy next year and @senatemajldr carries through on his extraordinary promise to fill it-despite his own previous precedent in blocking Garland — it will tear this country apart,&#8221; Axelrod tweeted on Friday.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en">If there is a SCOTUS vacancy next year and <a href="https://twitter.com/senatemajldr?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@senatemajldr</a> carries through on his extraordinary promise to fill it-despite his own previous precedent in blocking Garland-it will tear this country apart.
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Indeed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has already promised to ram through a nominee should a vacancy open up prior to the 2020 election.
Critics have accused McConnell of reversing his 2016 policy when he effectively blocked President Obama&#8217;s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, from even being considered for a vote, but as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ashe Schow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47771/left-claims-mcconnell-flipping-2016-supreme-court-ashe-schow">pointed out</a>, the senator&#8217;s position is consistent with his past statements:
<blockquote>Here’s what McConnell actually said in 2016 <a href="https://www.republicanleader.senate.gov/newsroom/remarks/mcconnell-on-supreme-court-nomination">on the floor of the Senate</a>.
&#8220;The next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the Supreme Court and have a profound impact on our country, so of course the American people should have a say in the Court’s direction,&#8221; McConnell said. &#8220;It is a president’s constitutional right to nominate a Supreme Court justice and it is the Senate’s constitutional right to act as a check on a president and withhold its consent.&#8221;
McConnell then explained the &#8220;Biden rule,&#8221; which was argued by then-senator Joe Biden in 1992. Biden at the time said the Senate should not vote on a Supreme Court nominee nominated by then-President George H.W. Bush until after the election. At that time, there was a Republican in the White House but a Democrat-controlled Senate.
As attorney Gabriel Malor noted on Twitter, that is not the current case, as the president is a Republican and the Senate is Republican-controlled. In 2016, the president was a Democrat but the Senate was Republican-controlled.</blockquote>
Though Justice Ginsburg has proven herself to be a reliable liberal on the Supreme Court, her statements in recent days have not exactly aligned with the more fringe elements of the Left, especially in her praise of fellow Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whom leftists mercilessly tried to ruin with an 11th-hour allegation of sexual assault from over 35 years ago.
&#8220;Justice Kavanaugh made history by bringing on board an all-female law clerk crew,&#8221; Ginsburg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/48190/justice-ginsburg-praises-brett-kavanaugh-paul-bois">said of her colleague</a> this past June. &#8220;Thanks to his selections, the court has this term, for the first time ever, more women than men serving as law clerks.&#8221;
Ginsburg <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49927/ruth-bader-ginsburg-says-what-conservatives-have-james-barrett">later lamented</a> to Duke Law School students that the Supreme Court nomination process has become too political.
Ginsburg has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/49876/ruth-bader-ginsburg-opposes-ocasio-cortez-backed-paul-bois">rejected the idea</a> of court-packing, which some Democrats have casually floated in order to overturn the conservative majority on the Supreme Court.
&#8220;Nine seems to be a good number,&#8221; the justice told NPR. &#8220;It&#8217;s been that way for a long time. I think it was a bad idea when President Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the Court.&#8221;

Kavanaugh Protestors

David Axelrod On RBG Health Scare: Empty SCOTUS Seat Could ‘Tear This Country Apart’

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Supreme Court

CNN&#8217;s David Axelrod slammed Democrat presidential candidate and current South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Friday, noting that blacks have fared worse under his leadership in South Bend.
&#8220;Axe, Pete Buttigieg says he&#8217;s not interested in winning without black support,&#8221; CNN&#8217;s John Berman said. &#8220;The fact of the matter is he can&#8217;t win without black support.&#8221;
&#8220;Absolutely cannot. Absolutely cannot. African-Americans are about a quarter of the Democratic primary electorate,&#8221; Axelrod responded. &#8220;Once you clear those early states of Iowa and New Hampshire, they come into play. And in South Carolina, 60 percent of the voters will be African-American. So, as a practical matter, he has to solve this problem or he&#8217;s going to go back to South Bend.&#8221;
&#8220;And that is a problem,&#8221; Axelrod continued. &#8220;South Bend itself is a bit of a problem for him because even though he has this very far-reaching Douglass Plan to try and fight systemic racism in this country, there are troubling issues back home about police staffing, which African-Americans dropped by half under his watch, and on city contracting, where African-American — where minority businesses have done rather poorly in sharing in the business of the city, even though 40 percent of the city is black and Hispanic. These are questions that I asked him.&#8221;
&#8220;We had some interesting exchanges on it. And, you know, he has to solve it,&#8221; Axelrod added. &#8220;And I think his campaign knows he has to solve it, which is one reasons why he was out there with an 18-page plan yesterday to try and deal with a whole range of issues affecting the community.&#8221;
Axelrod concluded by noting that people are going to look at what Buttigieg has done with the community in South Bend and that there are going to be problems when they see how he has interacted with the black community.
&#8220;And, you know, he had a series of issues. He fired a popular black police chief. It was because of an investigation. But, nonetheless, it was a controversial decision,&#8221; Axelrod continued. &#8220;He tore down 1,000 abandoned homes, many of them in poor minority communities, and that was meant to remove blight. But there was quite a bit of resistance because now there are these vacant lots in the community. So, you know, there are a lot of issues that he has to confront there.&#8221;
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CNN’s Axelrod Rips Buttigieg: Blacks Doing Worse Under His Leadership

Pete Buttigieg

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