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Axelrod: Trump "Forcing" Democrats To Embrace AOC's Squad, Accept They Run The Party
RCP Video ^ | 7-18-2019 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 07/18/2019 5:13:09 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

CNN contributor, Democratic operative, and former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod called President Trump a "self-hating America hater" in reaction to his treatment of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and the three other progressive freshmen in the House. ...

"He thinks that he is going to influence these suburban voters by persuading them that the Democratic party is too far left. But in going as far as he's gone and he will go he may persuade them that we can't take four more years of this," Axelrod said.

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"He wants to elevate these four young members of Congress to make them the emblem of the Democratic party and he wants to be so outrageous about it that he forces all Democrats to embrace them, to support the argument that they are the iconic figures in the party and in the bargain, he riles up his base with nativist language," Axelrod said to host Anderson Cooper. "The irony, Peter Baker wrote a great piece in the 'Times' today about how ironic it is that the president who was deeply critical of the country even in his inaugural address and who said we're not any different than Russia in the way we approach human rights."

"Apparently, he's like a self-hating America hater," Axelrod quipped. "Now he's attacking people for saying there are things wrong in our country that need to be addressed. But I just have to take a step back as a strategist and say I recognize what he's doing and a lot of what he does is intuitive, it's not mapped out. But it's worked for him and he thinks this will work for him."

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


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To: VanDeKoik

Dave has it exactly right.

DJT has forced the dems; led by the Imbecile in Chief of Scat Francisco to rabidly defend the leaders of Friends of al queda.

Of course, everything dems do these days is done *rabidly*.

Nonetheless, well played, Mr President, well played.


21 posted on 07/18/2019 6:03:30 AM PDT by jazminerose (Adorable Deplorable)
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To: italianquaker

The Super Ignorant “suburban women” who voted for these unAmerican Democrat terrorist sympathizers should tear up their voter registration cards and sit out future elections until they get some common sense.

Do they really think open borders and the welfare state will equal prosperity? If so, they must also still believe in Santa Claus. Their Leftist college miseducation did not prepare them to understand the real world.


22 posted on 07/18/2019 6:04:21 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Sir Napsalot

“...David Axelrod called President Trump a “self-hating America hater”

Coming from a self hating jew/red diaper baby.


23 posted on 07/18/2019 6:08:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Baynative

“Pelosi is looking tired. I think they’re wearing her down and she may not run again next year.”

...because she is no longer living.


24 posted on 07/18/2019 6:10:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Sir Napsalot

He is correct....................


25 posted on 07/18/2019 6:11:37 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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To: Baynative

You can just tell that the Dem leadership in on their last rung. Any more “Squad” types in the House, and they will sweep Nance and Co. out immediately. I wouldn’t even be shocked if she is primaried in 2020.

The only reason why Chuckie in the Senate is safely laying low is because they arent in the majority, and it is unlikely that any AOC’s will ever win Senate seats.


26 posted on 07/18/2019 6:13:41 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: italianquaker

The Mid-terms were a result of two things.

Many Republicans in Congress retired and were replaced by Dems.

The ‘California Strategy’ worked. They took over the entire state and the congressional delegation with illegals’ votes and Ballot Harvesting.................


27 posted on 07/18/2019 6:14:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.............................😃)
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To: FreedBird

Their pocketbook? That’s precisely why the Dems are offering free everything to every group in their “base.” The dumb clucks think that if they vote Dem, the free stuff will start rolling in and it’ll be even better because it will be taken away from someone else (the “rich” or “whites”) and they won’t even have to pretend to work for it.

And by dumb clucks I don’t mean only the ghetto and illegal immigrant base, but the upper middle class college students who want somebody else to pay their student loans.

The Dems understand this pocketbook thing all too well. It used to be called vote buying but now it’s called social justice...


28 posted on 07/18/2019 6:21:39 AM PDT by livius
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To: Sir Napsalot

I think the headline is deceptive. Axelrod seems to be saying this is a ploy by the “America-hating Trump” that will fail.


29 posted on 07/18/2019 6:28:21 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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To: JudyinCanada

“The mid-terms showed more voter fraud than stupidity.“

And it was the prototype. They stole a Governor, 2 or 3 Senate seats, 20+ House and countless important down ballot races. They almost got 2 more Governor and 1 more Senate seat. The GOP did nothing.


30 posted on 07/18/2019 6:31:17 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: JudyinCanada
The mid-terms showed more voter fraud than stupidity.

I’d say that 30 GOPe reps following the punk, Paul Ryan, into retirement and giving up a 95% incumbent reelection advantage had an effect too.

31 posted on 07/18/2019 6:45:15 AM PDT by Kickaha (See the glory...of the royal scam)
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To: gibsonguy

And (let’s be honest) the Republican mid-term slate in 2018 was somewhat less than inspiring. One can be a big fan of Trump but not loyal enough to the Republican Party as a whole to bother showing up to vote for a Martha McSally. I expect Trump will bring out millions who haven’t voted in years to support him in 2020. Whether they bother to vote for down-ballot GOP candidates is another matter.


32 posted on 07/18/2019 6:46:15 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Sir Napsalot

Slimebag Axelrod is sweating,


33 posted on 07/18/2019 6:57:41 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Hotlanta Mike
And where now the UN and EU are accusing Venezuela of human rights violations against their own citizens.

I haven't heard any comments from AO-C or Bernie on that issue yet.

34 posted on 07/18/2019 7:10:09 AM PDT by HotHunt (Been there. Done that.)
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To: thoughtomator

Ha, thanks, I learned a new thing (zugzwang) today.


35 posted on 07/18/2019 7:27:55 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot
Now he's attacking people for saying there are things wrong in our country that need to be addressed.

Axelrod is lying (of course). He is grossly distorting the remarks being made by the squad - they use phrases like "America is rotten", etc. That is not identifying problems - it is calling for throwing the whole country in the trash bin and starting over.

President Trump is being careful to aim his remarks against their behavior. The dems are mad because they have to defend indefensible, voluntary behavior from the four.

36 posted on 07/18/2019 7:45:53 AM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: Bonemaker
“Pelosi is looking tired. I think they’re wearing her down and she may not run again next year.”

She will be 80 on 26 March, 2020.

37 posted on 07/18/2019 8:11:07 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Red Badger

Plus Mcains no vote on health care enabled the dems to run effectively misleading ads against the gop


38 posted on 07/18/2019 8:56:29 AM PDT by italianquaker
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To: Sir Napsalot
Hey Axelrod, Astroturf that, you traitor.

Will you be executed along with the other cabal members?

39 posted on 07/18/2019 10:03:12 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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