Former Obama advisor David Axelrod appeared to downplay his criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris’ “phrase salad metropolis” solutions throughout the CNN city corridor Wednesday evening.
“You talked about that a few of her responses to robust questions, particularly on Israel and on immigration, resulted in ‘phrase salad metropolis,’ primarily reverting to speaking factors. By his personal admission, Donald Trump weaves when responding to sure questions, and it appears to make no discernible distinction to his supporters. So I’m questioning the way you suppose Harris can handle what gave the impression to be to very totally different requirements,” CNN anchor Boris Sanchez requested Axelrod on Thursday.
Axelrod agreed Harris is held to the next customary than former President Trump and emphasised all of the positives of Harris’s solutions that evening earlier than acknowledging his remark.
CNN commentator and former Obama senior advisor David Axelrod responded to the reactions after his “phrase salad metropolis” feedback. (CNN screenshot)
“Sure, she’s in a harder place as a result of she has mainly needed to introduce herself to the American folks in 90 days. Donald Trump, we’ve seen for years, and he does get…there’s little question about it. Boris, you hearken to a Donald Trump rally, and it’s an unimaginable flight since you by no means know the place he’s going or the place he’s going to land or how one level connects to a different. However that, in some methods, is priced into the inventory of Donald Trump,” Axelrod stated.
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He continued, “Whereas individuals are actually making an attempt to get to know Kamala Harris, so her solutions are being scrutinized extra carefully as a result of individuals are on the lookout for clues to who she is and the place she’s going, and that places extra strain on her.”
“I do know that that exact piece of my evaluation was quoted extensively,” Axelrod acknowledged. “I additionally talked about a number of the strengths of her presentation, together with when she stated the distinction between us is that he’s going to return to the workplace with an enemies listing, and I’m going to return with a to-do listing about how we work on these issues, these considerations that we’ve mentioned right here tonight. I believed that was highly effective and compelling and actually elementary argument within the remaining ten days of this marketing campaign.”
Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris speaks throughout a CNN city corridor in Aston, Pa., on Wednesday, Oct. 23. (AP/Matt Rourke)
He added how that argument “actually struck a chord” in him and hoped she would proceed to apply it to the marketing campaign path.
Axelrod went viral following the city corridor after conceding that Harris went off into “phrase salad metropolis” solutions to questions she didn’t need to reply.
“The factor that may concern me is when she doesn’t need to reply a query,” Axelrod stated. “Her behavior is to type of go to ‘phrase salad metropolis,’ and she or he did that on a few solutions. One was on Israel. Anderson requested a direct query, ‘Would you be stronger on Israel than Trump?’ And there was a seven-minute reply, however none of it associated to the query he was asking.”
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David Axelrod took purpose at Kamala Harris “phrase salad” solutions on Wednesday following her CNN city corridor. (Screenshot/CNN)
He continued, “On sure questions like that, on immigration, I believed she missed a possibility as a result of she would acknowledge no considerations about any of the administration’s insurance policies. And that’s a mistake. Typically you need to concede issues and she or he didn‘t concede a lot.”
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