Democratic strategist David Axelrod held a favorable report for President Donald Trump’s second inauguration.
Axelrod suggested that the high-profile event scored a win for Republicans, giving them a running start to the next four years of the Trump administration.
“Objectively, if you were sitting over in the WH this AM, you probably are well satisfied with how yesterday went,” Axelrod said in a post to X. “They wanted to strike an image of action and stamina, and they did.”
Axelrod, who once advised former President Barack Obama, said the Trump team was able to create the positive perception because the president’s “broadly unpopular blanket J-6 pardons were deferred until the evening so as not to step on the story.”
Objectively, if you were sitting
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