All posts tagged "David Axelrod"

A CNN roundtable reveled in the perfect metaphor for Trump's corruption and failure to "drain the swamp."

CNN anchor Kasie Hunt provided an update on Trump's lavishly renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, which has been coated with a green layer of algae since last week. Hunt echoed a description of the pool as "swampy."

David Axelrod, a Democratic political strategist and former Obama White House official, said, "The metaphor leaps out at you."...

Trump's latest appointment is baffling and extremely dangerous, a political commentator warned Tuesday evening on CNN.

Bill Pulte, a Trump loyalist and the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, was appointed as the acting Director of National Intelligence. Critics point out that he has no experience in intelligence, but Democratic political pundit Van Jones said it's worse than that.

"The main thing is something really bad could happen when you have people who are unprofessional, they're in there doing the wrong thing," Jones warned. "People can die in America."...

A Democratic strategist pushed back against those who've opined that Vice President Kamala Harris would be better served at the upcoming debate if she deployed a 2020 tactic she used against then Vice President Mike Pence, at the time telling Pence "I'm speaking" when he interrupted her.

Erin Burnett spoke with Democrat David Axelrod and GOP strategist Stuart Stevens on CNN's "OutFront" and asked if Harris' 2020 strategy with Pence would "play well" if she deployed the same against former President Donald Trump next week.

"I wouldn't necessarily advise that strategy," said Axelrod. "You know it's interesting, there's been this big debate within the debate over whether the microphones will be muted when your time is up."...

Democratic strategist David Axelrod interrupted former Republican Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin during a panel discussion on CNN Tuesday night, shutting down claims that presidential nominee Kamala Harris was responsible for the immigration crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border.

“She was the border czar,” Zeldin said. “The numbers skyrocketed. She was supervising a policy that…”

“Lee, Lee, Lee,” Alexrod interrupted. “You want to be factual and substantive and I appreciate that. That is a good instinct. She wasn't the border czar.” ...

US President Barack Obama's campaign guru David Axelrod arrives in London to meet with Labour leader Ed Miliband later Thursday in a bid to kickstart the party's stuttering general election campaign.

TV critic David Zurawik of the Baltimore Sun slammed MSNBC on Sunday for hiring former top Obama aide David Axelrod as a senior political analyst.