David Axelrod: If Trump Ignores Inflation, ‘Go to Talk to Joe Biden and That’s What He Did’

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AXELROD: "Well, I‘ll tell you one thing that I would not do. I would not go out, as the president does repeatedly, and tell people that this has been a historically successful year and that the economy is strong and it‘s the envy of the world. And if you‘re sitting at home and trying to pay your bills and buy your groceries and pay your rent, and you‘re looking at your kids and wondering how they‘re going to make it, you don‘t want to hear that. And if he doesn‘t believe that, go talk to Joe Biden, because that‘s what he did and it was a terribly destructive strategy for him. So I think, you know, look, you had good candidates, you know, these gubernatorial candidates were fresh and had great biographies, and they leaned into those issues. I thought Spanberger made a terrific speech tonight. That really was a contrast to the politics that people have become so despairing about. But at the end of the day, you know, when you have the conditions that we have in this country and you‘re the incumbent president and you run everything and you make a point of running everything, then you‘re going to get blamed for stuff. And tonight, the voters did blame him."