cnn senior political commentator and former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod is here. the x-files just hit its 600th episode by the way, i'm a guest in one of those. republican cumbersome and trump campaign surrogate byron donalds back with us as well. david, i want to begin with you. what a crazy final week . the comedian at madison square garden, the biden garbage comment, adding an apostrophe to change the intent on that comment. mark cuban on women around trump you had trump saying guns are trained on the face of liz cheney. what would happen. so many more that i'm forgetting. did any of it make a difference? >> yeah. i kind of think it does. there are a lot of people out here living their lives not just focusing on the race. the question is how do you close the race? and in the main i think that harris has been more disciplined in her closing . i have said many times that the trump campaign itself, it's advertising and general locking and tackling has been very professional and very well conceived . the problem is there candidate, who takes them off message in his

cnn senior political commentators, david axelrod and david urban the david's david axelrod, if you wereide the harris campaign now, as you were in both obama campaigns what would your sort of overall takeaway be at this point? where do you honestly feel like they are? and they need to be in this race? look, i think that the reality of it is that they really need to focus on those three northern industrial states that touch the great lakes, the blue wall. i think that's where this race is coming down. there's, you know, they maybe they will rally in some of the sunbelt states, but i've felt that biden never worked those states very hard because he was always focused on the on the northern states. and so they hadn't been worked. and i think they're a little bit behind there. so i think those states are most important. pennsylvania is still the essential state. dave's home state. and i think if she wins those three states that she'll be president and if she loses one or more of them, it's going to be it's going to be difficult. >> david urban, as i get your sort of big thought, i want to p

david axelrod is back and republican consultant mike murphy, two veteran political strategist and hostt. david, first of all, what you make of the back-and-forth between sanders and head of the democratic party? where should democrats be pointing the finger? >> you heard me over the last few days, i do have concerns about the way the democratic party relates to working-class voters in this country. the only group democrats gained with in the election on tuesday was white college graduates. among working-class voters, there was a significant decline, the only group they won among democrats were people that make more than $100,000 a year you cannot win national elections that way and should not be that way for a party that fashions itself as the party of working people. i think he has a point, mike knows this because we have been talking about it, you can't approach working people like missionaries, we are here to help you become more like us. there is unspoken disdain, unintended disdain in that. i think biden has done programmatically some good things for working people but the party i

david axelrod was talking about the disconnect with the american people. they couldn't subvert the people's choice this time. >> it was too much and too wide. >> harris: thank you. it has been a big week. glad you were here. president-elect trump's victory could mean the end of his legal ca cases. republicans inching toward control of both the house, they already control the u.s. senate by majority. is that coming? >> if you look at president trump's performance in carrying senate candidates over the line there is no modern day candidate of either party who turns out voters more effectively than president trump. we feel very optimistic we'll pick up seats. >> harris: control of the u.s. house still hangs in the balance with some key races too close to be called. we're watching it. every hour or so we learn of another one being called. jason chaffetz is in "focus" next to break it down. if you're a veteran wife, homeowner, and the family bookkeeper, you're the first to know when high rate debt is stressing your budget. but your family's service has earned y

joining us david xelrod axelrod. david, what do you make for the pick for chief of staff?ok, i said many times here during the course of this campaign that donald trump -- you know, that the trump campaign, they had a rational campaign and irrational candidate, and she kept the campaign -- she and chris lasavida kept the campaign on track and to a large degree kept the clown car away. it is tougher in some ways in washington, but -- >> yeah, talk about that. i mean the role of the chief of staff, you saw this obviously in the white house yourself in the obama administration. there were in the last -- in the former trump administration, there were, you know, meetings with some of the -- >> well, my guess is one thing she will try to do is tightly control who goes into the oval office so people can't wander in and influence things without her knowledge, and that will be very important. i mean a chief of staff, if a chief of staff is empowered can be really, really important in terms of the paper flow to the president, the people that the president sees, the decision tree. it

my panel is here, david axelrod, if you were inside the headquarters in wilmington, what would you be most worried about right now? >> look, the watchword of the day is humility. when you have polls that are this close and i'm sitting next one of the great pollsters, i think she would tell you when you have pulls this close, you are not sure of anything, and it really matters who shows up because these are not precise, so what i'm worried about is, you are counting on some women who are independent, republican women to come out and vote for harris, is that going to materialize, is the gender gap going to be what you need it to be. are minority voters going to come out in the numbers, and are you going to get the margins that you want there? so there are a lot of open questions, and there obviously working it hard, now the feet on the street and they are doing the kind of work that you do in a race like this but this race is filled with uncertainty today. >> what is donald trump worrying about? >> the greatest of all philosophers said it's tough to make prediction. the future is uncert

. >>> joining us now is senior political commentator david axelrod. i need to congratulate you because you just released the 600th episode, which is incredible of your amazing podcast the a.c.t.s files. congratulations. we are three days out. i want to get your 30,000 foot view of where you think we are right now. >> close. very, very close. it is a race in which the battleground states are all separated , all within the margin of error. many within a point . fractions of a point. and everyone is grabbing for a advantage. what is interesting to me is all of the attention on north carolina. because earlier in the week , the harris campaign had actually cut its television by -- bui in north carolina. later in the week, they restored it. now, she is going there. and trump is going there four times . it makes you feel it both campaigns feel like the state is in play. i also think that if you are kamala harris , you want an insurance policy in case there is some chip in the blue while you are counting on. north carolina , 16 electoral votes . george, which

. -- alongside david axelrod and john king.prised were you at this -- these numbers, would you make of them? and feel free to respond to with the former president said. >> thank you for having me. we first saw the numbers on tuesday morning, monday night was the first night in the field. i walked into the office -- i saw the unweighted data. it had harris leading. my assistant said, do you see the data? i said, i would like to see the weighted data. that is how we take care of what would make our poll unrepresentative. we align things with unknown population and we extract from a larger group of people who meet our definition of likely voters. that is people who have already voted, and people who say they will definitely vote. when former president trump says we interviewed more democrats, that is what came out of our data. we did nothing to make that happen. i'm a big believer of keeping my finger off -- my dirty fingers off the data. we did it the way we did it. when he won in our final poll twice, and two election cycles, th

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>> the point david axelrod makes i agree with. you can't stand up and say bidenomics is working or that the problem is greed inflation when people are feeling prices have gone up by more than 20% and wages haven't kept up. fuel prices up by 45%. we need to have pro-growth policies, reduce spending, deregulate what president trump promised in pennsylvania probably the most important thing is unlock our energy sector. we had this incredible abundance of natural gas and we need to make pipeline permitting easier, we need to create opportunity for fracking. it's great for the economy in pennsylvania, creates great new jobs. it is also great for our national security and ironically great for the environment. that natural gas can be export evidence around the world and replace coal-fired place in places like india and china. it is a huge opportunity. we shouldn't be talking about banning fracking but quadrupling it in pennsylvania and across the country. along with other sources of energy, alternative sources, solar, wind, nuclear are a

and i think david axelrod was absolutely right. part was economic because working-class people were hit harder by inflation than the wealthy. and i think also, working-class people are more practical, commonsensical and the nuttiness that we sell man participating in women's sports or man being able to use women's bathrooms or providing gender treatment and surgery to men who wanted to transition to be into women in state prisons, which they had kamala harris on tape supporting that. that just did not with common sense view what life to be about. >> john: donald trump did a in-your-face to mark cuban, even though that was probably not his ultimate intention but remember what mark cuban said on "the view" the other day. >> donald trump you never see arounds strong, intelligent women ever. it is that simple they are intimidating to him and he doesn't like to be challenged by them. >> john: who did grass piling on mark cuban, trump yesterday name susie wiles, the epitome of a strong, intelligent woman the first female chief of staff i

times journalist and podcast host lulu garcia-navarro and also cnn senior political commentator david axelrod. so, david, what do you make of caitlin's reporting about hegseth? and do you think this nomination will go forward well, you know what's interesting is like 24 hours ago, he seemed like of a bunch of very, very stunning nominations. >> he seemed like the most likely to get through without a problem. and now he's leading the broadcast and i think, and you know, others may have a comment on this trump is a guy who has found liable of sexual assault so i'm not sure that it would that would disqualify him as a trump nominee. i don't think that's something that would disturb the president. the real question is how do the people who are supposed to provide advice and consent react to all of the stories not just about hegseth, but about bobby kennedy jr.? about the the other nominations? obviously, matt gaetz, um so you know, are they going to execute their responsibilities or are they going to are they going to accept no fbi background check are they going to accept not receiving the repor

going which by the way, yeah, me actually don't cooper, but my mind van jones, gretchen carlson, david axelrod end for any thanks so much, we should note that david 600th episode of the axe files podcast is now out. i was honored to be a part of it. i got to interview david on his podcast about the 600 episode. you can listen to right now to cnn.com. we've talked about and are going to hear some really amazing very personal interviews. he's done surprisingly intimate interviews with people like barack obama, nancy pelosi, justice sotomayor, and a whole a bunch of other people, lot of sports figures to i didn't know who they were. but it's really fascinating and it's out now wherever you get your podcast, you for doing now is great. next, as we look at the harris event in reno, it will be joined by her senior campaign adviser and david zolan, colleague on the obama campaign, david bluff plus john king on the road in battleground, michigan, breaking down new polling on the race there, and to sun belt battlegrounds, a break first farmer's dog, who've lost so much weight. >> precaution packs makes

me yeah. >> actually i don't cooper but i know my van jones gretchen carlson david axelrod erin perrine, thanks so much. we should note that david's 600th episode of the ax files podcast is now out. i was honored to be a part of it. i got to interview david on his podcast about the 600th episode. you can listen to it right now at cnn.com. we talk about and you're going to hear some really amazing, very personal interviews he's done surprisingly intimate interviews with people like barack obama, nancy pelosi, justice sotomayor and a whole bunch of other people. a lot of sports figures, too, who i didn't know who they were. >> but it was really fascinating. >> and it's out now wherever you get your podcast. thank you for doing that. no, it was great. next, as we look at the harris event in reno, we'll be joined by her senior campaign advisor david's colleague on the obama campaign, david plouffe. plus john king on the road in battleground michigan, breaking down new polling on the race there and two sunbelt battlegrounds, a >> if you're shopping for a home realtor.com only shows you homes

actually i don't cooper but in my van jones gretchen carlson david axelrod erin perrine thanks. so much. we should note that david's 600th episode of the ax files podcast is now out. i was honored to be a part of it. i got to interview david on his podcast about the 600th episode. you can listen to it right now at cnn.com. we talk about it you're going to hear some really amazing, very personal interviews. he's done surprisingly intimate interviews with people like barack obama, nancy pelosi, justice sotomayor and a whole bunch of other people. a lot of sports figures, too, who i didn't know who they were. but it was really fascinating. and it's out now wherever you get your podcasts. >> thank you for doing that. no, it was great. next, as we look at the harris event in reno, we'll be joined by her senior campaign advisor david's colleague on the obama campaign, david plouffe. plus john king on the road in battleground michigan breaking down new polling on the race. there and two sunbelt battlegrounds, a break first. >> do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need now y

let me play what david axelrod, who was the about this, what he says about rahm emanuel and why he woulde good to revamp the dnc for example well, what should we do? >> who should lead the party? i would take ambassador rahm emanuel and i would bring him back from japan, and i would appoint him chairman of the democratic national committee because he is the the most skillful political kind of in-fighter in the democratic party. he's been, you know, he's been a member of congress. he's been white house chief of staff. he's been the mayor of chicago. he knows how to do this and he would be a presence uh, in you know, in the media. and so on, fearless about taking on trump so i hear what amisha is saying, and i think that a lot of democrats will agree exactly with what you're saying. >> here's another way of looking at rahm emanuel. if you need somebody in the democratic party to say to give the middle finger to a bunch of different constituency groups and do what needs to be done to win it kind of sounds like what our friend david axelrod is saying is that rahm emanuel, who's known to be a

let's discuss this latest news with cnn's senior political commentator, david axelrod and matt mauers, president of valcor llc. matt, just about a week ago, you and i were discussing potential cabinet picks and you mentioned that attorney general would be extremely tricky. not only because of donald trump's aspirations for doj and what it means in the federal government, but also because they would immediately become a target, the nominee, from democrats. >> i think we said maybe the best appointment in the administration would be his second choice for attorney general. i think a lot of even republican senators, doesn't mean they won't confirm donald trump's nominee or matt gaetz. i'm skeptical they will, but doesn't mean they won't. they're going to have a lot of tough questions about what are these reforms you want to see at the justice department. i think there's broad consensus that some changes have to be made but for what extent and means are you willing to go and do it. those are types of questions that any nominee for attorney general will have to answer. especially matt gaetz

. >> look, there were some people, and i have to say our colleague, david axelrod got beat up and beatecause he kept saying this is not going to work and i'm concerned about his age and i mean he got beat up worse than i have ever seen a democrat get beat up. there were people who had the courage, but not enough of them. and scott jennings is right, there was something going on, and it was not going on in 2021 or 2022 but by the debate there was clearly something off about joe biden. he gave me opportunity when nobody else did, but there is a reality here. now look, it is important to look back and learn these lessons. this is not a blame game. this is the part of the grieving process and also the reassessment process that any mature party should go through. it just hurts because this time last weekend we thought we were going to run this dude off the world stage and now we have to deal with him and all his friends and family members and everybody else on the stage and we are crying in our beer. it is a tough weekend now, but scott is not wrong. but i think that where scott is underest

. >> i want to bring in john and david axelrod. they all know you and respect you. john, i know you have been reading from the pool. what's to come to you? >> a quick piece of history first, the 2020 map. a lot of people out there said mom, that can be possible. look at this in 2016. it is possible it is possible. it's been a while but iowa voted overwhelmingly for obama in 2012 and 2008 as well. there are a lot of independent in iowa. i just want to say despite what the former president said, i have known her a long time. she is one of the best in the business. and she is right. the data is what the data is. so here is what's interesting. among female voters in iowa, overall a 20 point gap. 56 to 36%. now i want to bring up independent. you are always looking late in the campaign. the democrats are loyal, the republicans are loyal to theirs. look at that. 57 to 29. my question for you would be, why? the six week abortion ban in iowa took place a couple months ago. trump has been pretty dark in his rhetoric come insulting the vice president quite a bit. is it someth

david axelrod thinks he knows why harris lost. >> there is racial bias in this country and there is sexismis country and anybody who thinks that did not in any way impact on the outcome of this race is wrong. stuart: sexism, guarantee we are all over that one. prosperity was on the ballot last night. >> i will govern by a simple motto, promises made promises kept. we will make america safe, strong, prosperous, powerful entry again. stuart: inflation drove a lot of voters to the polls. the markets responding with a huge rally. we will deal with that next. what will you do when the power goes out? power outages can be unpredictable and inconvenient, but with a generac home standby generator, your life goes on uninterrupted. because when your generac detects a power outage, it automatically powers up, giving your family the security and peace of mind they deserve. we don't have to worry about whether we lose power or not. if the utility company does not come through, our generac does. after the hurricane happened, we just want to be prepared for anything. 8 out of 10 home generators are gener

joining me now, david axelrod, otherwise known as ask, or our buddy, and scott jennings, thank you gentlemenr being here, susie wiles makes history as the first woman who is the chief of staff, that's a big thing. what do you make of her stepping into this role and do you see her as someone who is going to be a guard rail, enabler, or what? >> first of all, i'm glad she got this job cousin she earned it, she ran one of the most disciplined, organized campaigns and she's known in the republican party as being a competent administrator of whatever she gets involved in. if she takes that same kind of discipline and organization to the white house, it gives trump an excellent pathway to fill those jobs quickly and execute his agenda. and i love this because it obliterates the attacks that people were making on donald trump, chiefly mark cuban that can't stand to be around smart and strong women. she did a great job running the campaign, she will do a great job running the white house. every corner of the party this morning is cheering this on and the fact that trump made a decision quickly, deci

with you there were people like david axelrod that i think are going to do legitimate evaluation, davidlouffe, legitimate evaluation. i think these people are totally deattached and i question whether they should stay in america. >> ainsley: they don't know what middle america is like. middle america does have religion. they like god. they like it take th their chiln to church on sundays it teaches right from wrong. >> lawrence: brian talking about all the talking points put out before the election. i hope it gives us some type of comfort. i was worried, honestly, the mainstream media -- they were so aggressive with the celebrities and i mean it seemed like -- i mean, ainsley, you go through every day the lies that were told, national abortion bans, project whatever. 2025. just over and over and over. but the american people, they are smarter. and they rejected all the talking points. >> ainsley: what does that tell you? you make a good point, think about all the channels, abc, nbc, cbs, msnbc, cnn, all pro-kamala. all of those channels, they had an opportunity. those were free advertis

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democratic strategist david axelrod is floating rahm emanuel's name, writing about the former chicagoayor, one time obama chief of staff and current ambassador to japan, dude knows how to fight and win. but, dnc insider quoted by fox digital says we need new blood. we need modernization. we need somebody who understands the vastly changed new media landscape and who is willing to invest in it. don't know that rahm fits the bill for that some democrats believe the party's problems run a lot deeper than the person in charge of the dnc. >> we fought for tolerance for a long time and suddenly we have become intolerant. we need to think about that. we are not going to win elections if we don't at least entertain and debate a variety of views on important issues. >> peter: democrats now seem united in agreement. the party has to change to win, and not just on the issues. we know that biden and harris are going to be gone soon. tonight axios is citing unnamed democratic lawmakers as telling them they hope nancy pelosi take the backseat, too. bret? >> bret: peter doocy live on the north lawn,

david axelrod is going to come back in a moment. ahead, the president-elect has suggested prosecuting high-level democrats and calls them the enemy from within. the question is what will the department of justice look like in the second administration. from fbi direct your andrew mccabe joined us next. >>> last year trump said that if he won the white house he would appoint special prosecutor to go after biden. this year he said vice president harris should be impeached and prosecuted. last month he said the military should be used against the quote, enemy from within. days later he called democratic senator elect adam schiff and policy each an enemy from within. also in the course of just a few days in june this year he said this in two sitdown interviews. >> revenge does take time. i will say that. sometimes revenge can be justified. i have to be honest sometimes it can't. >> those that want people to believe that you want retribution, that you will use the system of justice to go after your political enemies. >> number one, they

it has david axelrod worried. >> so what i'm worried about is how -- you're counting on some women who independent, republican women to come out and vote for harris. is that going to materialize? is the gender gap going to be what you need it to be? are minority voters going to come out in the numbers, african-american numbers in particular, and are you going to get the margins that you want there. so there are a lot of open questions. this race is filled with uncertainty. >> jesse: republicans worked their tails off put together a ground game over the last few years, and we're already starting to see the results. the polls say the race is tied, but there's still a lot we don't know. >> i think the bolsters are gegetting this wrong. they're giving us the same poll over and over again. they are telling us we're watching a basketball game where every play is a jump ball. somewhere somebody is missing something. i think there's -- i'm not going to call it a wave, but i think there is a wavelet out there of republican enthusiasm and registration. >> jesse: wall street, who pays guys millio

i want to place epic from david axelrod said this early wednesday as it became clear president trumpen be reelected about partially what he believes happened. >> there were appeals to races in this campaign and there is racial bias in this country. there is sexism in this country. anyone who thanks that did not in any way impact the outcome of this race is wrong. >> you know the numbers president trump improved his numbers with women, with black voters with latino voters, people are voted for him because they wanted to feel safer but they wanted to feel better about the economics but he is one of those whose warning democrat simply saying sexism, racism and the country got it wrong. that's why they pick this man to be the president again. >> if that becomes the primary and lose perpetually. that is exactly i think what we have done wrong. we have condemnation of donald trump versus invitation to donald trump supporters. i have never known any industry political or professional strategy of condemnation works better than invitation. so there you have it. it's really true. and by the wa

there were only a few democrats saying she is not a great candidate like david axelrod would push backmetimes james carville would burn back a little bit. >> brian: doesn't guarantee a win. >> ainsley: we all knew she wasn't a good candidate. we didn't know where she stood on issues. flip flopped and flip flopped. she wouldn't do the interviews. she wasn't forthright about how she voted in california. she made a lot of gaffes, word salad after word salad. how could they think she was a great candidate. they said she was. they loved her and loved her. all because they hated trump. >> steve: she wasn't a great candidate but she also and we heard experts on the democratic side saying that particular question that sunny asked derailed her presidency. >> ainsley: it wasn't sunny's fault? sunny just asked the question. >> steve: sunny is feeling the heat because people are blaming her. >> lawrence: do you know who is great though? >> steve: yes that woman right there. >> carley: i was hoping you would say me, lawrence. thank you so much. that is so sweet. somebodyshall i get to more new. rai

david axelrod floated the idea on his podcast, following up on x, saying dude knows how to fight and win. okay, rahm, rambo, he knows how to win in illinois. he's pretty radical left. i think that they're going to have a problem with the base of their party, because the whole base has gone crazy, so good luck with whoever takes over that job. yep, i agree there. i mean, this is like being named the captain of the titanic. like the ship has already sunk. there's not a lot to work with. that being said, sean, this is a pretty cushy gig because when you're the head of the dnc, you don't do anything. the donors pick the candidate. okay? nobody else has any say, but the big money donors. your job is just to figure out which celebrities are going to cash in off the campaign. it's not a bad gig if you can get it. and he can't do any worse than the last guy. well, oprah didn't come off looking too well when she said i didn't take a penny, but harpo productions apparently got $1 million. is there a distinction there? well, all right, last thing. trump's iconic dancing. we got to get to that q

and there were the obama people and bush people at this vital moment waiting -- david axelrod has a speech that he is supposed to give president obama to say will you please now leave the ceremony is at an end and orderly leave. there has been a threat. >> bill: what do you remember from that time? >> dana: that's how i became friends with gibbs and psaki, we were to reach out to our counterparts and we're friends to this day. i also remember that last day that going forward on january 20th, 2009, it was freezing cold but you can also feel the energy and excitement of the incoming team and their supports. everybody is gathered there. you see all of that building. one of the things that's really different this time -- asme owe excited to see how susie wiles will manage. she doesn't like to do press. i don't know her personally but excited to see how she will do that. i think she will be very good at that job and they know what they want to do. president trump knows what he wants to do and he has people let's go forward and then karl with this senate majority, he will be able to do a lot. do

david axelrod to hear mj saying, look the campaign is they're feeling they're feeling good and they believe that they are outperforming trump specifically on those undecided voters in the final days, that they're messaging about a democracy and disqualifying. they feel that that is working. those undecided voters, they say, are they're going that way. if that's the case and we know them to be 1 to 3% in these, these states where if the polls are right that's the margin of victory. that could be the race. >> could be, yeah, it could be i think the emphasis should be on could because nobody really knows. and i think what they do sense and what i sense is that she's closing better than he is. this is the week when people who have not been very tuned in to the race are going to finally pay attention to it, because they have to and and donald trump is kind of off track and she's got on her message and, and in some ways he's modeling the behavior that has caused people to be concerned about him in the first place. so i think they feel good about that. they look at early vote numbers in these in t

but david axelrod says before we have a power struggle, we've got to recognize we're out of touch. you can't approach working people like missionaries and say, we're here to help you become more like us. there's an unwritten kind of unspoken disdain, unintended disdain in that i think biden has done you know, programmatically some good things for working people. but the party itself has increasingly become a smarty pants suburban, college educated party, and it lends itself to the kind of backlash that we've seen. the clinton syndicate thinks democrats are just too extreme. i'm not concerned right now what the right thinks about the democratic party. i'm concerned about what i think about the democratic party. i don't like to echo the congressman, all three of them. i don't like the fact that a small portion of our party is pretty much dictating where we are, that they are pretty much we are being branded as the most extreme of us. we need to take stock of why we are being held hostage to the far left. no one should be and wants to be kowtowing to the extremes of their own parties.

and tim, i think joe rogan will open his studio up on a weekend for the vp or her running mate, david axelrod. >> do you think it's worth it? >> i don't know i would commend people to listen to his interview with with jd vance yesterday, which had some wild twists and turns that i'm not sure were particularly helpful to the trump campaign. i think it's tough when you're in the final 72 hours of the campaign to divert yourself and do that, but i do. i did notice that matt sort of he said, well, there are some awkward moments and stuff that was kind of but, you know, dick cheney and i mean, that was sort of like but how is the play otherwise mrs. lincoln? that was a bad thing that happened last night. what happened sunday here was one that turned a lot of americans off. and i think this is a problem for the trump campaign i'm not i'm speaking now as an analyst as i said, i'm thinking i'm trying to put myself in the position of people who are trying to win this campaign for trump. and you know, he is very much a liability at this stage of the campaign. >> there is a confluence, matt, between the

finger to a bunch of different constituency groups and do what needs to be done to win, it kind of david axelrod is saying is that rahm emanuel, who is known to be a pretty, uh, you know, an in-fighter, in-fighter fighter in-fighter not a knife fighter, but an in-fighter he knows how to recruit candidates. >> he got ran out on that, too he would have still been there if he could have won for the only reason there was a lori lightfoot was because rahm his own coalition. i think we mean, i understand, i think from where i sit in pennsylvania and watching the democrats nationally lose this election in all the battleground states, they were structurally incapable of responding to a message. donald trump blasted through ten years of identity politics and putting us all in silos. he blasted all through that with a message that united americans across across race, across gender, across socioeconomic looking at you know, fix the economy, fix inflation, secure the border, secure our communities in pennsylvania unleash our energy and take care of our veterans that united. i mean, i would walk around allen

quote out there, saying what is absolutely [bleep] elizabeth: that was former adviser to obama david a axelrods like they were in meltdown road. >> i am enjoying your show, he is right, if anyone thought that biden could have defeated trump he would note have george clooney crying about it in op-ed or replaced in middle of the night. and everyone went along with it. kamala harris is just an extension of biden-harris regime, no one cared who the couple was. that regime didn't win. elizabeth: when you saw the red sweep of dc, likely house, senate and white house, what does this tell you about the far left? >> it says they have absolutely no mandate, instead of being self reflective, this is not what american people want, they want to continue down the same path, with the oh, you just didn't understand we know better than you, the same type of elitist attitude that was really cost them, you know this absolutely massive defeat they under went. elizabeth: good times ahead, carol we'll have you back on, thank you. >> i am elizabeth macdonald thank you for watching "the evening edit" on fox business,

i think david axelrod was obama's former campaign strategist or what have you, he -- they want to make choice. people are so desperate for change -- host: go ahead, charlie. guest: the thing is that i don't think -- i'm not downplaying the significance of this election. what i am sort of saying is i think the interpretation is a bit off. i think this election was almost entirely about president biden and the biden-harris administration in the last four years and the cost of living. secondarily, the border. but, you know, whenever you have an incumbent, it is a referendum up and down on the incumbent. this campaign started with an incumbent running, biden and then late in the game, he changed. but they practically changed kamala harris's name to biden harris, which is fair and a smart thing for them to do. this election was about the biden-harris administration. i don't think it was about donald trump much at all. just as i don't think in 2020, that election was not about joe biden. joe biden may have thought he had a mandate but that was not a mandate anymore than this is a mandate. ho

i think david axelrod was obama's former campaign strategist or what have you, he -- they want to make choice. people are so desperate for change -- host: go ahead, charlie. guest: the thing is that i don't think -- i'm not downplaying the significance of this election. what i am sort of saying is i think the interpretation is a bit off. i think this election was almost entirely about president biden and the biden-harris administration in the last four years and the cost of living. secondarily, the border. but, you know, whenever you have an incumbent, it is a referendum up and down on the incumbent. this campaign started with an incumbent running, biden and then late in the game, he changed. but they practically changed kamala harris's name to biden harris, which is fair and a smart thing for them to do. this election was about the biden-harris administration. i don't think it was about donald trump much at all. just as i don't think in 2020, that election was not about joe biden. joe biden may have thought he had a mandate but that was not a mandate anymore than this is a mandate. ho

this would go back to the david axelrod.emocratic party coaches them almost like missionaries. like we want to help you and make you like us. he was in effect saying i am representing you against those people. i agree that a lot of it doesn't have to do with misogyny and racism. but i do feel that there is a, one of the big dividing lines is college educated people and not college-educated people. there is certainly a class element. >> i'm saying that the people who swung their votes, changed their votes, decided this election. i am not saying all 85 million. i am just saying, i think that people need to think about the economic reasons first and foremost. >> that's what i was going to say is that one of the things that, i think maybe the biggest thing that donald trump renovated from was the fact that he had been in the white house before. and the economy was better. and people remember that. and that is such a fundamental across-the-board for pretty much everyone who voted for him. >> your takeaways for what we heard from

what david axelrod is saying should be taken seriously by everybody listening. a lot of people don't understand there is a reason why we do things a certain way. there's a reason you do not have the department of justice, the top in the country sitting directly under the president doing whatever he says. there's a reason you want the top cops to be separate so they can enforce the law and can prosecute fairly. the very thing that donald trump was accusing biden of, that he weaponize the department of justice and was seeking federal cops on to people. it's what donald trump actually wants to do. i'm sure his own son would have been prosecuted by the doj. so biden for whatever you think about what happened with the prosecution of donald trump was a firewall there between biden and those cops. that may go away. we have never lived in that country. the reason that we have these norms is because richard nixon actually abused those things . america learned a tough lesson so i think it's important. it's good for us to understand the balls and strikes but the game is ch

's and cooper is with david axelrod, alyssa ferrer griffin, and david irvine.lus, of course, we have correspondence covering the candidates. let's go right now to abby phillip at harris campaign headquarters at the vice presidents alma mater how are university here in washington dc. abby, what is it right now from the harris campaign is results start to come in in some places? >> reporter: jake, i have been talking to harris advisors all day. people inside and outside of the campaign. the word i'm getting from them is cautious optimism. a lot of these people have been in the battleground states throughout the weekend and the last couple days . they are seeing a momentum shift on the ground. they believe something has changed in their favor. so, a lot of the people i am speaking with feel good coming into tonight. one person though who does not really want to talk about winning is the candidate herself, vice president kamala harris is almost superstitious about not wanting to have that kind of conversation. she has been headdown all day today, on the phones doin