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1. “And I believe in that moment and I believe those moments will continue because we are not going to end this experiment. We are not.”

   2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “Right. And in that quiet time, in that quiet space, all of the fundraisers, all the donors, all the grassroots activists, all the speechwriters, all the strategists, all the policy people, all the journalists, all my editors, all the field producers were all waiting. And in that quiet space, America tells us what's going to happen. We think we're in control. We think we know what's going to happen because we've been so close to it. We've been analyzing it and working through it and sweating and bleeding for 16 or 18 or 20 months or whatever it is. But we in that moment have zero power. Nothing. Happens until the people tell us what happened. And I overlooked that until just recently, that quiet time.”

   2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Right. Or, because we made such a big fuss about this, it got cleaned up on our watch. No, it's the same process. But you asked me to offer an optimistic appraisal. Let me just say two things. There's a part of this democratic process, David, that I overlooked for most of my career. You know this as well as I do. Election Day is a very quiet day for you and me. It's the most unnaturally quiet day of a campaign. And what I mean when I say overlooked it, I took it for granted. Why is it a quiet day for you and me? Because there's nothing for us to do.”

   2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

4. “And so there's going to be moments where Republicans are going to be caught in their own. Rhetorical madness about this problem that does not exist because when they say, oh my gosh, I won. How do we know? Well, because a process yielded a verdict and confers authority. Well, I thought you said the process was terrible. Well, no, not that I've won. And that will... Illustrate for all to see the core hypocrisy of this particular message. And I believe that will have. Now, I could be a completely Completely dough Optimists here, but I believe that hypocrisy has to have a cleansing effect. Now, maybe it doesn't. And maybe the cynics are all right.”

   2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

5. “The whole state is male in voting. I mean, come on. Like I said, oh my God, it's such a great thing. No, no. What happened is there was a Democratic outcome. Just as there have been democratic outcomes that preceded that. That the process is not your problem. The result is your problem.”

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6. “Yes. Right. So let's just say, for example. Republicans win the governor's race in Oregon. Which is possible. I'm not predicting that, but it's possible. No, no.”

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7. “They called Arizona. Along with the AP, CBS did not, not for days. And because we were running through the data on our bottles. But they were right about that. And Chris Steyerwall, who's a friend of mine, was fired over that. Other people were fired over that. Forgetting it right. I don't think you need to say anything more about the current state of any journalistic organization when getting it right ahead of the competition is a fireable offense. What else do you need to know?”

   2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

8. “So the audience may remember I was there for eight years. I left a September of 2010. It was written about at the time extensively. It was clear that my contract was not up. I had more time to serve under my contract and I left early. And we left agreeably. And that's a rarity at Fox. And it is less recognizable to me, David, than it has ever been. And what I knew back then, I still believe to be true in 2020, that in the polling area of Fox and the decision desk matrix, they worked very well and they had a very good and reliable set of professionals who did what the data said. And in 2020, they made a call that even CBS didn't make.”

   2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

9. “No doubt, no doubt. No, there is a particular source of this particular problem, and we are not ambiguous about who that particular source of this particular problem is.”

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10. “Or that fake elector should be sent from Ohio or anything like that. And no one should no one marshalled outside the capitol and ran up the stairs or anything else. All that is true. All that is true.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

11. “In twenty eighteen Stacey Abrams never conceded, and there were issues about that but those things contributed and Republicans use it as a whataboutism when it's not. We're not saying it's 50 fifty, but it's not hundred to zero.”

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12. “Okay. Okay. And we also recounted the book that election denialism, though virulent and widespread in Article of Faith in many respects in the Republican Party, Democrats do not have completely clean hands on this. We talked about 2000. That was a legitimate election with a very close margin and a real question about voter intent. But 2004, there were a handful, a very small number, no question. John Kerry didn't indulge in this, but some Democrats did about Ohio. That was wrong. 2016, lots of Democrats were sore losers. Hillary Clinton conceded, but the rhetoric around that was dismissive and undermining of the sense that that was the electoral result and that was the process that played out and it played out. Maybe you were deeply dissatisfied with it, but it was the result and we should respect it.”

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13. “Deprive yourself of speaking accurately and intensely and passionately about something that is worse and Texas was worse than Georgia. And we also, David,”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

14. “It is Precisely. Our other observation about the Georgia law is when President Biden went down and described it as Jim Crow 2.0, he left himself no rhetorical room to look at more restrictive laws like the one in Texas. If you call the Georgia law, Jim Crow 2.0, you've maxed out. You've maxed out on rhetoric, and the Texas law and the restrictions therein are much worse, much tighter. Texas was already a hard place to vote. It became much, much more difficult place to vote. And look at the primary result in March with lots of votes, thousands of votes, from experienced primary male-in voters were nullified because these restrictive rules they couldn't even figure out. And our point is when you use maximalist rhetoric about it place and time that doesn't deserve it.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

15. “But let me say a couple of things. And this is part of the conversation that you may not find as agreeable. So we write in the book that the one biggest problem with the Georgia law is that investing of power in the state legislatures. To overrule county election administrators. Many other aspects of that Georgia law. We're not as harmful as they As described in the moment”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

16. “There's a flaw in the system everywhere, which is what he said on 60 minutes, even though Wincott Pelley, my colleague, asked for evidence, he had very little of it, and the things he mentioned were of such small statistical insignificance as to be laughable, he still clings to it. And there are others like him.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

17. “Not lean into voter education that provides maximum information to interpret existing laws most harshly so things in which a voter makes a mistake, an honest mistake, somehow becomes either a prosecutable description of fraud or something that nullifies a ballot. And lots of Americans show up accidentally at the wrong precinct, especially after redistricting. Or they might write a number down incorrectly in an application. There it's an honest mistake. They're not trying to game the system. They're just hectic busy people like most Americans are. Secretaries of state can weaponize small instances like that and either suppress that vote entirely or turn them into make-believe fraud cases and therefore create an atmosphere around voting that is much less accessible and welcoming than it ought to. Those things Secretaries of State can do. And if someone like Mark Fincham, who says”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

18. “They very well might. And I just want the audience to understand a couple of things about the Secretary of State position. So it will be very, very difficult, if not impossible for a Secretary of State by himself or herself, to look at an election result and say I by myself will overturn that election result. That is very difficult. Why? Because candidates have legal rights, and a candidate who won is not going to sit idly by and watch a Secretary of State declare them the loser and not take power. They have legal rights and they have lawyers, all of them will, and they'll go before the bar and they'll present evidence. What secretaries of state can do, which is much as harmful over the long haul is deprive election administrators of results, meaning resources rather, meaning Not fund them well enough.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

19. “You and Rusty do not share very many ideological points of comparison or interest. No. You don't, but you believe in one thing”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

20. “Because you cannot have a coherent conversation with anyone who's in the denial space about what actually happened. They don't even talk about what actually happened anymore because every conspiracy theory has been completely disproven. All they say is I'm with Trump. I don't trust it. And this is what I believe. And I'm entitled to this belief. And I'm going to vote accordingly. And so in primaries, it's not just table stakes. It's the strategic difference between defeat and victory in many instances.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

21. “Yes, and the more virulent you are about, the more you're going to get those 0 4s and 1 fours. Well, David, in a primary, you're looking for every vote possible. And if your rival is vacuuming up as you are, the two fours, the three fours, what is your strategic point of difference? Zero fours and one fours. And right now, the mentality in Republican primaries is deny the election because denial of elections become a proxy of your devotion to Trumpism. It is no longer about evidence or what actually happened. That's long since gone away.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

22. “Right. So, David, I'll talk and jargon that you know very, very well. So, I've talked to several Republican pollsters and field strategists. So in Republican primaries, and this was especially true in Arizona, so you know the propensity scale that many strategists put together for voters, the four-point scale, 4-4, 3-4-2-4-1-4-0-4. If you're a 4-4, you're going to show up to every primary and general election. You're in, you're locked in, you're a voter, you're high propensity. Obviously, if you're zero for you, almost never show up. Well, guess what drives 04s and one fours in the Republican primary right now? What drives them? One issue.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

23. “So it's more virulent. I thought it would die down after the January 6th riot at the Capitol. It did not. And there are lots of dimensions to this. And there are people on this continuum. Not every one of those 306 Republicans who we put in the denier category was, let's say, for example, empowered to vote against certifying electoral votes. Many did. Some just say, I have questions about it or I doubt it. Some go so far as to say, hey,”

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24. “Oh, well, what could the possible remedy of that be? How about a machine optical scanner? Like, oh, optical scanner, it's connected to the internet. No, it's not. And you know what else is an optical scanner? The thing that you drop off at FedEx, do you drive your package across the country? No, you don't. You give it to FedEx and they optically scan it and the data is recorded and it gets to the place it's supposed to get to. It's the same thing.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

25. “About 73% of the ballots cast in 2016 were on paper. 95% were cast on paper in 2020. In a couple of key states in 2016 there were no paper ballots, so there wasn't an auditable trail of voter intent. Now we have an audible trail of voter intent. We do this better and people are like, oh, there's a ghost in the machine, the counting machines. We'll go to Kny County, Nevada right now, where Nye County is small county in the northern part of the state, has decided we're going to hand count balance. Guess what they've discovered? Hand counting balance is very difficult. It's time consuming and it's inaccurate.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

26. “They believe they were protecting democracy. They believe their president called them. To come to defense of democracy in the country that they love. Not all of them. And those in the aftermath, there is a whole chapter that David Beckerin, just so the audience knows, David Becker worked in the Justice Department and the Voting Rights section in the Clinton and Bush years, George W. Bush, experience in this field for 25 years. I brought him on board, David, because I needed someone who had the depth of experience and the clarity on the law and the process to help me write with complete conviction in that aspect of this space. And David helped immeasurably in that. But we do this work now better than we've ever done. That's the great irony. And it's so provable. All Republicans say, well, of course Trump won in 2016. And he did. It was close, but he won.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

27. “Democrats did that, independents did that, Republicans did that, African Americans did, Hispanic Americans, white Americans, Asian Americans. We all acted. In a way to further Our American experiment. And a third, or maybe a 40% of this country, after everything I just said and everything that is provably true, visibly true, verifiably true, believes instead some kind of crime was committed. And it's a dichotomy. wrenches every fiber of my being.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

28. “Is most of all parole workers, David, as you well know, are aged fifty, sixty, seventy, and eighty. Hello, what was the most vulnerable age population to COVID? So they opted out, understandably for health reasons, and for a time a terrifying time David May, July in twenty twenty, election administrators did not know if they would find the Americans who would step up and do this work. And they did. And we did this thing, David. It is Americans growing up in this country. I was born in 1962. Universally celebrated what are those things ingenuity, commitment, collaboration, cooperation stick to not accepting no or failure as an option. Doing something under a hard, inflexible deadline and meeting the test of the time.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

29. “Election administration means working a precinct, working a polling area, working a vote counting area is very precise work. You have to understand where to go and how to maneuver things. Learning all that over Zoom is much, much difficult, much more difficult than learning it on the scene. But because of health risks and adaptations, much of this education had to go through via Zoom. My eldest daughter was one of those 400,000. She was a pole worker in 2020 for the first time. She was part of a generation of Americans who stepped into this void. Why was there a void?”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

30. “Without precedent and without roadmap, we achieved all of these things with a global pandemic raging and no vaccines and election administration work is by very nature intimate. It's up close. You don't have to vote in person, but election administrators have to work in person eventually. We trained 400,000 new Americans as poll workers, David, in 2020, and we did so almost entirely over Zoom.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

31. “Made less on this book. I'll probably on the advance certainly by several orders of magnitude than any book that I have ever written because people were not that interested in the idea the original concept was just to write a book thanking and kind of a love letter to election administrators who in 2020 did something amazing. What did they do? They put together an election which saw the largest turnout of any election in our nation's history with the most diverse electorate ever, twenty million more Americans participated in twenty twenty than in twenty sixteen, we had more paper ballots and any election in our history ninety five percent of all ballots were cast on paper. We adapted in ways that”

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32. “The greatest privilege of my life, David, was to rise to the level where I could cover national politics. It was the dream I had as a child and to watch and observe American sort out issues and advance the American experiment. Been the greatest experience of my life, and I love our country. I love its flaws. I love its strengths. I love everything about it practically. And I really wish I didn't have to write this book, but I had to. It was a calling. It's probably the only book I've written of the five that I've put together that was a calling.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

33. “Who indulges in election denialism and thinks, well, I have grievance about whatever election is, and that will never spread. It will spread. Just as these ideas of smashing into the guardrails of our institutions leaves a mark for everyone. It doesn't leave just a mark for you.”

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34. “Institutionally harmful you might be tempted to use them, meaning to say I don't have to respond to this congressional request because I'm the president even though it's a legitimate oversight request. The Trump administration pushed back aggressively on that, altering all of those fundamental understandings between the executive and legislative branch. This brings me back to my book in which I warn everyone who indulges.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

35. “Because you basically are saying what is doable that can be built on for the next two years while Republicans run either the House or the House and the Senate. Then you know the investigations are coming and you buttress and reinforce the White House Council's office. You get every cabinet agency understanding what the prerogatives are, what the requirements are. And you probably go back to some of the tools that the Trump White House used to push off Congress, even though those were”

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36. “I can't do it. I can't do anything about it. So I think the next most important thing, and I would imagine the White House is already working on this because Ron Klane is no dummy and either is Steve Rachetty or all the other people around the president. They're looking at a lame duck strategy. What can you salvage? What can you protect? What can you advance in what could be a productive and busy lame duck session?”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

37. “And if I'm in the White House for the good of the country, for the good of my presidency, and for the good of financial markets, not just in America, but globally, and at a time when Putin is trying to use as savagely as he can what remaining economic global impact he still has, I don't want a death crisis for the United States. I want to try to resolve that in the... Lame duck if possible. Then I know the investigations are coming and I butcher. Let me just stop.”

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38. “So, the first thing I would be circling is what could I get done in the lame duck session? What is doable? What is permissible? Is there anything through one more reconciliation bill that can happen on a fifty-vote majority in the Senate that I can eke through and I can get through the parliamentarian? If there are any component parts of immigration that you can deal with there, can you resolve and get agreement on a debt ceiling extension that Not in perpetuity, but puts that out of immediate danger zone. Now, I can understand a cynical argument. No, let Republicans prove their extremist tendencies right off the bat and let them walk into the box canyon of a debt ceiling crisis. Look, I've lived through more than one debt ceiling crisis. They're no fun.”

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39. “He should be in that role that we've come to expect in the television era, this idea that the country has a control problem and this long term sense of what was lost during COVID, I think a lot of things were gained during COVID. We talk about mental health much more openly and with candor and less sense of fear and stigma. That's a long process, but I think that is something that came out of this. We learned there were a lot of collaborative ways and adaptive ways. I don't think it was all in that negative, but there are memories about it that will be harsher than the lived experience. And I think part of that will manifest in the midterms.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

40. “Fell apart completely because they had no approach politically or from policy. To undo Obamacare. They did take one component part of it in the tax bill, but they didn't undo it. And they don't even talk about it anymore. So the 10 year cycle of grievance and then acceptance I think will play out for much of the Biden agenda just because I've watched that happen with Obamacare Nevertheless, in this moment, the president is harmed by his lack of vigorousness, and there are times when he looks less than”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

41. “I see him. I see that senator from 20 years ago. And there are times that I don't. But that lack of vigorousness is a drag on the entire nation's ability to absorb this moment and ascribe credit for the things you just described. And that will be part of the Biden legacy for however many terms it lasts, one or two. The country will be in a different place and in many respects I would argue positively different because Republicans, if they take control, are not going to get rid of much of what's already happened. They're just not. They're going to do other things, but they're not going to try to pull apart. We know this because we've seen that with Obamacare. You lived every one of those wars, David. And then you watch them play out for the thirtieth vote, the fortieth vote, the fiftieth vote, the 60th vote. Oh, then Trump gets it and they get control. And I wrote about this in my book, Mr. Trump's Wild Right. They tried and they...”

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42. “Now, that's not an ageist comment. That's just a, I've watched five presidents up close. You've watched more than I have, but I've watched them up close. And I'm not saying he doesn't have the tenacity or the will or the capability to do the presidency. He clearly does. But there is a performative part of the job. There always has been. George Washington knew it. Every occupant of the office knew it, some better than others. And on that level, he suffers. Now he knew he would suffer because he took the job at an age when he's not the Joe Biden that I covered in the Senate. For many, many years. There are times when he looks.”

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43. “And that goes to a larger psychic construct, which is not right track or wrong track, but do you feel a sense of things slipping away? Like you're not even sure if we can hold on. And when you get to 80%, people wondering, can we hold on? That's economic. That's what is the structure and resilience of our democracy. What is our level of faith and confidence in our institutions? This brings me to the president. He is not a vigorous person rhetorically or in person. There are times he's better than others. You know that very well. But there are times when he is painful to watch.”

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44. “There are a lot of issues there. First of all, we just did a poll, our CBS News Battleground tracker poll, and we had a question that's very close to what you just observed. And it was not the typical right track, wrong track question. It was, do you feel the country is out of control? And David, 80% said they felt the country was out of control. 80%.”

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45. “Noticeable economic message I'm left sort of Dumbstruck by that. It just seems to me a strategic failure of Democrats. They passed this, they had a set of reasons for passing it. And they're not talking about it in ways that feel robust, confident, proud, assertive, and Or visionary about it, and I don't understand that. I'm literally dumbstruck by that.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

46. “So Le Prescott is trapped in one level by the transitory. Nature of inflation which he was stuck with or said for about six months, but that's not my big observation. My big observation, maybe it's small, is this. I'm really perplexed that after the American rescue plan, the Chipsville infrastructure and the Inflation Reduction Act, which is nearly $5 trillion of spending that Democrats drafted understand why they did. There's a programmatic reason behind it. After all that, the argument for most voters that I've been traveling around the country on my book tours I'm watching a lot of ads on TV is principally about abortion and abortion is a really important issue and privacy rights and everything that comes under that umbrella is very important but after $5 trillion if you don't have a coherent and”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

47. “Employment is at historic close. Wages are up, but they're not keeping pace with inflation. There is a tremendous, I know this because my three grown children are in the job market. There is a hunger out there for workers, skilled workers and unskilled workers. So it's not as if you can't get a job in America. And it's not as if once you get a job, your wages haven't risen in the last year and athlete just haven't kept pace with inflation. And we don't have stagflation. It's not a kind of an economy that is circling the drain. This idea of a recession, yes, it's talked about, but it's not a practical reality.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

48. “Was a high water High water mark for Democrats in terms of the president and what, uh, The number of house seats gained, Senate seats. The midterm elections in 2010 There was a lot of room for Republicans to grow and grow they did. And that's not going to be true this time. One thing that will be somewhat similar will be this idea of Kind of Republican grassroots rebellion is too strong a word, but pushback on a sort of unified set of issues and a repetitive pounding narrative about what's wrong with the country, which was also prevalent in 2010. Of course, the economic situation was much different. What President Obama inherited in 2009, people forget, I know you don't The month the month he took office, if I recall correctly, $750,000 Americans lost their jobs.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

49. “Right. So 2010, as you well remember, 63 House seats. It's not going to be that, in part because the room to move is not nearly as high. Because in the 2008 election, as you also well remember, as you were intimately involved in the entire national strategy,”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

50. “No, of course not. Now, having said all that, the midterm votes will be cast and counted Elections will be certified, winners will be identified, and then there'll be a reassessment. And if it's a Republican House and Republican Senate, President Biden is going to have a completely different matrix. And the idea of Republicans in power and what that looks like and how that does or doesn't resemble a pre-Trumpian return to the White House will change the political dynamic again. That is right now an abstraction. After this election, if Republicans prevail in the House and Senate, it will no longer be an abstraction. It will be real. And the Democratic orientation to that and the country's orientation to that will be the next after effect and the political tides will begin to shift because of that as well. None of this is static.”

    2022-11-03 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 510 — Major Garrett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source