A veteran Democratic strategist cautions that the optimistic mood within the party due to Vice President Kamala Harris replacing President Joe Biden on the ticket may be “irrational exuberance.”
David Axelrod, the chief campaign strategist for former President Barack Obama, believes the election between Harris and former President Donald Trump is still “Trump’s race to lose.”
“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,” Axelrod mentioned on CNN. “Now people feel like there’s a chance.”
However, Axelrod warns that Democrats should not assume that replacing Biden ensures a win in November. “It is absolutely Trump’s race to lose right now,” Axelrod stated. “He is ahead and he is ahead in most of the battleground states. They’re close, they can be won by either candidate. But there is a lot to be determined in the next 90-whatever days – 96 or what it is left.”
“So yeah, 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.”
Biden announced on July 21 that he was withdrawing from the reelection race.
The vice president, who was officially nominated as the Democrat candidate in a virtual roll call vote last week, is expected to accept the nomination during the Democratic Party’s convention in Chicago from Aug 19-22.
Axelrod was among the prominent Democrats encouraging Biden to step down from the presidential race. Last week, he cautioned that Trump remains a “pretty substantial favorite” over the vice president, as reported by The Hill.
Harris is preparing to reveal her choice for vice president this weekend ahead of a Tuesday campaign event.
RealClearPolling on Sunday indicated that Trump holds a narrow lead over Harris nationally and an average lead of 4.4 percentage points in seven key battleground states.
{Matzav.com}