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If I were still a practicing political strategist and had the president’s record, I think you could easily reelect him. But the question has never been political. It’s actuarial, this isn’t about his performance. It really is about age.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
They are in between a rock and a hard place and the critical mistake was in fact, the drip, drip, drip, the essence of crisis communications is – figure out where the story is going, get there as soon as possible, get there as thoroughly as possible.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
On this particular story, they just don’t look good, they are in between a rock and a hard place and the critical mistake was in fact, the drip, drip, drip.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The presidency is a monstrously taxing job and the stark reality is the president would be closer to 90 than 80 at the end of a second term, and that would be a major issue.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The important thing for Joe Biden -- and Joe Biden should come by this naturally, because Joe Biden's very good at this, unusually good for politicians -- is to speak to people about what's going on in their lives and give them a sense of understanding about what's going on in their lives without looking and trying too hard to tell them what a great job Joe Biden's doing, joe Biden needs to be the empathizer-in-chief.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Evidence will show the New York Times and James Bennet made a mistake. Evidence will also show this mistake was in no way intentional.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This wasn't a political hit job, the board wanted to caution both sides about violent, political rhetoric.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Anything that changes the subject is good news. It's been a rough stretch for him. It is a chance for him both to fulfill a promise and do something that unifies his caucus and gives him a win, this is a propitious time to be talking about Supreme Court. If the current court does as we expect and guts Roe vs. Wade in the spring, this could be a motivating factor for voters on the Democratic side, particularly women, particularly in the suburbs, which will be important. And having a stellar nominee who impresses joining the bench after June could be part of that mix.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
You know, he had a difficult task today because he wanted to make clear that he has accomplished a lot, and there are a lot of things he has done. But we're in a country where 28% of Americans feel we're on the right track.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've said it many times you cannot jawbone people into feeling better.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Today, the White House and Democrats rightfully suspect that at least the House will turn in '22, so this brief moment of one-party control, albeit narrow, offers the last, best hope for the president and members to get big priorities done, that's why there is such urgent anxiety about loading up the Build Back Better Act with so many planks.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even before we took office, we knew the economic catastrophe we were inheriting, which promised to be long and deep, meant we faced a calamitous midterm, that meant if we wanted to accomplish anything meaningful, it would have to come in the first two years, when we had large majorities in both chambers. It's why President Obama moved the Affordable Care Act when he did.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Affordable Care Act was The Affordable Care Act because many of The Affordable Care Act main provisions would not be enacted or felt for years, in the case of the infrastructure bill, there should be visible projects underway relatively swiftly -- physical evidence of progress. The task is to link those community improvements to this bill and The President in the minds of voters.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
If you’re a Democrat sitting on Capitol Hill and you’re from one of these swing districts in suburban areas, are you rethinking tonight your vote on this reconciliation package? are you thinking, maybe it’s best, we shouldn’t do it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This is so broad in its scope, there are so many elements, that it doesn't really have an identity other than its price tag, it becomes a big blob... a plaid jacket.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We need not just one idea, we need to do it all simultaneously.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They certainly vote more with Republicans than many Democrats vote with Republicans, but he does need them, this is something that's lost in the discussion often, which is people say, well, why do they negotiate with Republicans ? Why don't they just go it alone ? Well, you can't go it alone, unless you have 50 votes, and Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are not on board on many of these key things that Biden cares about.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
I was surprised by it, and I wondered whether it was worded precisely the way President Barack Obama wanted it.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That would be important for Manchin because then he can point to it and say we did find common ground, the administration did stay at the table, they did show their good faith.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
At the end of the day, will people judge whether democracy is working based on whether or not there are significant Republican votes on the legislation that he passes? Or will they judge it based on the tangible things that are delivered by what he passes? his gamble -- and there's good reason to believe it -- is that tangible progress will supersede the style points.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Former presidents tend not to delve too deeply into politics and certainly not the politics of their successors, i think that was his plan, but Donald Trump changed that plan.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He's always understood if he was out there constantly, people would want to turn this into a Trump-Obama race, it wouldn't be fair to Biden and it wouldn't be helpful to Biden.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
In terms of his value, it's been smart not to overuse him, they've been using him in targeted digital appeals to constituencies that Democrats need to arouse in this election : young people and people of color, who did not come out in the numbers that Hillary Clinton had hoped four years ago.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
He doesn't view it as a personal grudge match with Donald Trump, he views it as an existential matter for the country and for democracy.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
Democratic Party's over. The election is over tonight. That's very clear.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The nature of presidential politics is the better you do, the more you are tested, pete Buttigieg has made a pretty remarkable progress in 2019. Now Pete Buttigieg is being tested as a legitimate top tier candidate and we'll see how Pete Buttigieg handles it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think that the foundation for these candidacies is pretty clear, in the case of Elizabeth Warren and Sanders it's incumbent on them to expand their bases.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think age is a very legitimate issue, this is the hardest job on the planet. And( it is) sensible to ask the question whether people who are nearing 80 years old when they enter office are prepared for it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
No one is going to hand Biden the Democratic nomination. He'll have to engage fully and fight for it if he is to get the face-off with Trump he is seeking.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
How do you capture the data and build relationships with all the people suddenly eager to help ? How do you quickly build an organization equipped to utilize that data and those relationships and develop a strategy, particularly in the must-win early states, and how do you prepare for the sterner tests that come for a' hot' candidate, as media and opponents begin to poke and prod with greater intensity to see if you are up to the job.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
There may be a seductive belief that by naming a running mate, you can magically erase political deficits, but at the end of the day, voters select the person on the top of the ticket, not the understudy.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
You can see the appeal of adding a running mate like Abrams, who would bring a lot of powerful qualities, but it would be a high-risk proposition.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
He has made it a strategy to mine these differences, mine these divisions, David Axelrod this issue of race, which has coursed through our politics and our society from the beginning if our history, but is a galvanizing issue for a portion of his base, he's decided to play base politics, and wherever he can he seems to want to light that fuse. And that has emboldened others to voice racist views.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Disgusted with this admin’s policies? Organize, donate, volunteer, VOTE! Rousting Cabinet members from restaurants is an empty and, ultimately, counter-productive gesture that won’t change a thing.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
My sense is that [Clinton] was not sold on the idea either.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
They knew exactly what they were doing, and that what they were doing was wrong.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
To me, it makes sense to nominate one of the stellar judges he's already chosen who has been approved by this same Senate that now refuses to act.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I think it will make electability and experience in this realm more important.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The court may genuinely be a major issue this year, it will be a hell of a fight.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
You look at winning campaigns and they have messages of empowerment -- they're inclusive, 'Yes, we can' was a great example of that.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's that old axiom a Chicago alderman once shared with me: 'The higher a monkey climbs the pole, the more you can see his ass,' the better you do in this process, the more scrutiny you get. It's the price of success.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
There were more probing stories, it kind of culminated in March with the frenzy around Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
He is a guy who believes we are an American community and we shouldn't turn on each other.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
'Well, I think they may be scared of losing their jobs,' i had the same conversation with him.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The media began by covering Trump as a sideshow, then grew more aggressive in challenging him on his 'facts', and now is more actively commenting on the character of his campaign.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I just don't buy into the interpretation that he would try and essentially politicize what was one of the most horrific events of his life.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He has been around politics for long enough to know that people are always kinder before you set foot on the battlefield than afterwards, people who said they are right behind you are suddenly a good distance back.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I think she did very very well. She was poised, she was passionate and I think she was in command.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
She was poised she was passionate and she was in command, if I were her campaign I would be thrilled with what she did tonight.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
We know that there is this cohort out there who believe that we are being encroached on by illegal aliens, Muslims, China and Trump has tapped into that constituency.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Barack Obama was a dynamic candidate, but if we hadn't started organizing Iowa in March of 2007, he wouldn't have won the Iowa caucuses, biden has no organization in Iowa today.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's awfully late. You talk to people in Iowa, it seems early, but it's awfully late to begin the kind of organization it takes to win the Iowa caucuses, barack Obama was a dynamic candidate, but if we hadn't started organizing Iowa in March of 2007, he wouldn't have won the Iowa caucuses.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Her answers have evolved over time and have prolonged this story, she's trying to bring this thing to an end so she can be heard on other subjects, but she needs a consistent answer.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I would do more unscripted, drop in on diners, drop in on taverns, interact with people, because you authenticate these interactions by working without a net - and I think she has done some of that.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We want to congratulate the Israeli people for the democratic process of the election they engaged in with all of the parties that engage in that election, as you know the hard work of coalition building now begins. Sometimes that takes a couple of weeks and we're going to give space to the formation of that coalition government and we're not going to weigh in one way of the other except to say that the United States and Israel have a historic and close relationship and that will continue going forward.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
That's a big if. Because the center of gravity in the party has been so far to the right that the notion of getting through that process without having to compromise and make Faustian bargains, I think, is very remote.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This is not uncommon in history, great leaders often work in that way.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
He's having the time of his life right now. I think he feels very much unrestrained in terms of speaking to all these issues.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Once she lost the Iowa caucuses, she became a different candidate, much less guarded, much more willing to connect with people in a visceral way, much more revealing of herself, much more of an advocate, that's the person she needs to be to win the election. And she needs to project a vision of where she wants to take the country.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
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