'He's not a competent candidate right now': CNN analyst questions letting Trump debate

Speaking with host Michael Smerconish on Saturday morning, CNN contributor and Democratic strategist David Axelrod suggested Donald Trump's campaign leadership would be doing itself a major disservice if they allowed the former president to take the stage and debate Vice President Kamala Harris next month.

According to Axelrod, if Trump's performance lately in his so-called "press conferences" is indicative of his state of mind, Trump's inner circle is setting itself up for a nationally televised disaster.

Simply put, he told the host, the former president shows no sign of being "competent."

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"He thought that he had won when we were in Milwaukee, the talk there was of a landslide and it felt like they were talking about the terms of surrender that they were going to demand and he felt very serene that he had beaten this," he told the host. "Now all of a sudden his life is flashing before his eyes, and I think it's one of the things that's unsettling him."

"But they sent him out yesterday to do a press conference, or two days ago, about the economy and his big challenge is to make her [Kamala Harris] the incumbent not the turn-the-page candidate and he wants to link her to [President Joe] Biden in a way that will make her the incumbent and that was what the press conference was all about."

"Instead, he blew himself up and spent ten minutes on his legal problems and lashing out in other places and he overwhelmed the message of his own press conference," he continued. "He is not a competent candidate right now and one of the questions about this debate is 'Is that the guy who's going to step on the debate stage?' Because, if it is, they've got a world of hurt."

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