David Axelrod

Founder, @UChiPolitics; Chief Political Analyst for @CNN. Author, Believer: My Forty Years in Politics. Host of The Axe Files & Hacks on Tap podcasts.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This is so telling.
The last DNI was just down in Atlanta, seizing 2020 election records to amplify @POTUS's conspiracy theories.
Now he brings in the ultimate loyalist, with NO Intel experience, to replace her?
This is an ominous signal for November.

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

I’m sure Kaitlan Collins is not rattled in the least by these casual, sexist, repeated attacks by Trump.

Her steadiness should be a reminder that NO woman owes any man her smile.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

People ask why the CA vote-counting process takes so long.
@Elex_Michaelson of @CNN explains it clearly here.
But the short answer is the state values participation plus thorough scrutiny of ballots over speed.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Perusing yesteday's primary results, California had the sizzle but Iowa, the beef.
At the end of the day, the CA races are most likely to yield predictable results.
But for the 1st time in years, IA will have competitive races that may help determine who controls House & Senate.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Actually, Pulte's an unqualified errand boy whose only experience w/spying is spying on the @POTUS's perceived "enemies," rummaging through their mortgage documents as head of FHA, looking for dirt. It was a total abuse of his authority there.
Imagine what he can do as DNI!

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Bill is a great guy who recognizes that the bureaucracy of the intel community must respond to the elected leadership (rather than the other way around). He'll do great!

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This one finding tells the story. And it's why @POTUS, powerful as he is in GOP primaries, will be an anchor on any R who will be running in competitive states and districts in November.

[InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022]

The Economy: Better under Trump or Biden?

All Voters:
🟦 Biden: 56% (+4)
🟥 Trump: 44% (-4)

Independents
🟦 Biden: 70% (+5)
🟥 Trump: 30% (-5)

Harvard/Harris (+/- vs Apr) | 5/29-31
https://t.co/lrKj8jPeiZ

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Dems, contemplating a confusing Gov choice in CA, took their time & posted a flurry of late mail-in ballots, which will arrive and be counted in the coming days. Rs voted more heavily earlier. Most of those will be in tonight's count, maybe a high water mark for Hilton & Pratt.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

So the $1,776,0000 fund for his convicted allies goes away, but the free pass that gets @realDonaldTrump out from under a potential $100 milllion tax liability stays in place?!? Sounds like a pretty damn good deal for HIM.
https://t.co/1G3AhSExM0 via @NYTimes

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

Russ Vought is trying to steal spending power again.

The Trump Admin is making up a new "rule" so they can revoke federal grants whenever they want for whatever reason.

Gift link https://t.co/Fuwbxr3mcZ

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Think about this: the nation's at war and the @POTUS appoints his political hatchet man, with no relevant experience, as Director of National Intelligence!?!

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Love to have been a fly on the wall when Republicans in Congress, already confounded by ballroom, slush funds and other antics, received word that Trump appointed a poltical hatchet man as the nation's Intel chief.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This is the guy who spent his time digging up dirt in mortgage records on the president's "enemies," which I guess is the allure.
He's also the guy the Secretary of Treasury wanted to bust in the choppers, which gives you a sense of the esteem he's earned from colleagues.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This HAS to be a joke. If not. It's a scandal! https://t.co/5UeGEHC5eT

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This HAS to be a joke. If not. It's a scandal! https://t.co/5UeGEHC5eT

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

There was a moment not long ago when Dems feared they would face the improbable result of an all-@GOP general election in CA.
Now, it seems possible that the Republicans are shut out of the finals in Tuesday's jungle primary, and two Ds will get tickets to the fall.

[umichvoter @umichvoter]

California Emerson poll

🔵 Beccera 28%
🔵 Steyer 22%
🔴 Hilton 21%
🔴 Bianco 12%
🔵 Porter 5%
🔵 Mahan 5%

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

What a hilarious turn of events!

[James Connor @toJamesConnor]

The Post broke the story of @jamestalarico's smart and hot Latina girlfriend. Advantage Talarico.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The Kennedy Center must remove Trump’s name from the building, a judge orders...
thus reversing the shameful desecration of a national memorial to a great president.
https://t.co/Erly2doFU4 via @NYTimes

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I'm not saying "time to panic" so much as I'm saying it's not entirely awesome that the highest level of delinquencies since the 2008 financial crisis are coinciding with near-record low savings rates during a period of stubbornly high interest rates and rising inflation