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The president was the first ever to attend the nation’s biggest sports event.
The political strategist has been critical of Kamala Harris’ White House bid, but he applauded her approach in the final days of her campaign.
David Axelrod says it was a “mixed night” for the Democratic nominee.
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He did say that the 44th president privately thinks the 45th’s obsession with crowd sizes is “supremely weird.”
“Pod Save America” hosts Jon Favreau and Dan Pfeiffer are sounding off on the campaign staffers who have been blaming them for Biden’s political demise.
Biden's campaign has long been leaning into Obama’s popularity to regain support among key Dem voters, but Obama’s old guard says the only way to stop the bleeding is to drop out.
The president could survive the roiling crisis over his ability to run for a second term—but has just days to do it.
“There are certain immutable facts of life... the president just doesn’t seem to come to,” David Axelrod said in a weekend appearance on CNN. “He hasn’t come to grips with it.”
A key indicator for why the president’s re-election prospects look so grim is that voters associate him with the word “nothing.”
Axelrod has suggested that Biden, at age 80, may be too old to win a second term.