Axelrod: Democrats Are Disillusioned Because They Don’t Think Democrats Are Doing Enough To Stop Trump
CNN chief political analyst David Axelrod reacted to bad poll numbers for the Democratic Party in an interview with Kate Bolduan on CNN today.
KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Okay. Let’s play a game, I’m just calling it today of Choose Your Biggest Headline. The options — Axe, you get to go first. The options are coming from a little bit of the CNN polling that’s just out this morning and a little dash of conspiracy theory. So, Democrats are far more energized about next year’s midterms. An overwhelming majority of Americans tell the Democratic Party, we do not like you, with favorability hitting the lowest point for Democrats since CNN began polling in 1992, or young Democrat-aligned voters are split on whether Democrats in Congress should even be reelected, or Jeffrey Epstein, which is the biggest headline? DAVID AXELROD, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, that’s a tough one. That’s like choosing between your kids. What do you — BOLDUAN: How do I choose? AXELROD: Yes. No, look, let’s talk about the Democrats. BOLDUAN: Yes. AXELROD: I mean, maybe this rescission package, by the way, that passed in the middle of the night through Congress, where Congress sort of gave their authority away to the president that was handed to them by the Constitution, but we’ll set that aside. That’s a trivial matter when you’re thinking about Jeffrey Epstein and so on. But on the issue of the Democratic Party, the reason those numbers are so low are in part that Democrats themselves are disillusioned because they don’t think Democrats are doing enough to stop Trump. And there is a limit to what they can do to stop Trump when they have neither House of Congress nor the White House. The real answer for them is to win elections. So, it’s kind of paradoxical. But just as Trump tries to rally his base by fleeing Democrats, come next year, this election’s going to be very much about Donald Trump. And Democrats as disillusioned, as they are with each other, I suspect, we’ll rally behind him. And what he should worry about are where independents are relative to him. The people who are going to decide this election are much less, you know, happy with him than he should want them to be. So, anyway — BOLDUAN: Add it all up, that’s Axe’s take. David Urban, so could the biggest — the headline with the biggest, I don’t know, lingering tail — you get to weigh in after I ask my questions, sir.
