Former Obama campaign strategist David Axelrod said that Democrats’ immature conduct during President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress did not help their case.
In an appearance on “CNN News Central” Wednesday, Axelrod criticized the Democrats’ antics during Trump’s speech, including Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) getting removed from the chamber for disrupting the proceedings and others holding up placards in protest of the president.
“I don’t think the performative stuff was very helpful at all last night. But, you know, here’s the deal: Both parties in some ways are captives of their bases,” Axelrod told host John Berman.
“And I think that there are a lot of members of Congress who probably come from districts that are overwhelmingly Democratic, who feel like their constituents are expecting them to be very actively protesting what the president is doing.”
“So just as on the Republican side, you know, the base loves the stuff that enrages people who aren’t in the base,” he continued. “And so the members respond to that. This is one of the problems with a highly polarized country.”
The bitter Democrats also refused to applaud when Trump was honoring special guests, including a little boy battling cancer, victims of illegal alien crime, and catching the ISIS terrorists who killed U.S. service members during the botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal.
A CNN poll found that 80% of the viewing audience thought Rep. Green’s disruption was “inappropriate.”
Meanwhile, polls conducted by CNN and CBS News found that 76% of viewers thought positively of Trump’s speech, which lasted a record 1 hour and 40 minutes.
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