Democrat strategist David Axelrod said during an interview over the weekend that Democrats needs to be sober minded about Vice President Kamala Harris’ chances of beating former President Donald Trump in this fall’s presidential election.
Axelrod made the remarks Saturday on CNN’s “Newsroom Live” while talking about how the dynamics of the race have changed ever since President Joe Biden has dropped out of the race.
“I think there’s a justifiable sense of concern in [Trump’s] camp that this thing could get away from him,” he said. “It may be their race to lose, but it’s a race, so it could be lost, which is something they didn’t feel when they left that convention in Milwaukee.”
CNN’s Jessica Dean said that Harris had “a lot of momentum” at the moment based on current polling trends.
“100 percent,” Axelrod said. “There’s a lot of irrational exuberance on the Democratic side of the aisle right now because there was despair for some period of time about what November was going to look like.”
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“Now people feel like there’s a chance. But it is absolutely Trump’s race to lose right now,” he continued. “He is ahead and he is ahead in most of the battleground states. They are close, they can be won by either candidate. But there’s a lot to be determined in the next 90-whatever days — 96 or what it is left.”
“So yes, I think it’s a wide-open race, but Trump has the advantage right now and nobody should — nobody should be, nobody should be — everybody should be sober about that on the Democratic side,” he concluded.
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WATCH: David Axelrod on the state of the presidential race:
“Trump has the advantage right now and everybody should be sober about that on the Democratic side.” pic.twitter.com/dvt9HfRQKM
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