Obama’s former top strategist David Axelrod was one of the few on the left who was truthful about Joe Biden’s decline. While seemingly every progressive newscaster and Dem congresscritter kept assuring us the president was “sharp as a tack” behind closed doors and that we should ignore what we were seeing with our own eyes, Axelrod continued to point out that Biden was a damaged candidate and would probably lose to Donald Trump. Finally, after the Disaster Debate, everyone else realized it too, and Biden was pushed aside.
The former Special Adviser to the President is now pouring cold water on the Dem’s unbridled enthusiasm over their new presidential candidate, the exceedingly flawed VP Kamala Harris. The excitement may be unwarranted, he warned Saturday on CNN while speaking with host Jessica Dean:
JESSICA DEAN, CNN: Yes. And look, she has a lot of momentum. But if you do look at the polling, this is still a really tight race. This is going to be a hard fight for either side -- tough based on the numbers we're seeing right now.
AXELROD: 100 percent. 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.
Now people feel like there's a chance. But it is absolutely Trump's race to lose right now. 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.
Watch:
Trump's Secret Weapon Against Harris: A Simple, 10-Word Question (paywall defeated)
Polling for the contest remains extremely close, but Trump still holds a slight edge:
Polling remains tight in the race, with Trump holding a slim 1.1 percent lead over Harris in The Hill/Decision Desk HQ average national polls. In battleground states, polling shows both candidates within the margin of error. The most recent The Hill/Decision Desk HQ prediction model gives Trump a 56 percent chance of winning the White House.
Axelrod is still a Democrat partisan and a committed leftist, but at least he's brought more sober reasoning than many of the shrill voices on CNN and MSNBC who continue to gaslight Americans over Harris' accomplishments (hint: they are few) and chances to win the presidency. My guess is that the more Kamala is out on the campaign trail, the more her shortcomings will be exposed, and voters—even fawning progressives—will see that she's simply not ready for prime time.
Watch the full interview here: