Former senior White House adviser David Axelrod on Thursday found himself agreeing with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) over the Democratic victories seen across the country in Tuesday’s elections.
“Well, I’m in the amazing position of saying that I agree with every word that Marjorie Taylor Greene says,” Axelrod told CNN’s Kaitlyn Collins and conservative commentator Scott Jennings. “I never said these words here, we’re making news right here on your show, Catalan.”
Axelrod said Greene is “absolutely right” to argue that the Democrats won, as Greene told The Hill’s sister network NewsNation, “a referendum with no consequences on what November 2024 was going to be.”
“The fact is, the President was elected primarily [election] Because people were very unhappy with the economy, and it hasn’t changed for the better,” Axelrod continued.
The Democratic commentator said he has heard Rep. Michael Lawler (R-N.Y.) “say we’re moving in the right direction,” but a recent poll by The Economist said only a small group of those surveyed, 21 percent, “agreed with him.”
“Fifty-four percent said we’re moving in the wrong direction,” Axelrod said. “So there’s a reason people are feeling that way. They know what happens at the cash register. They know what happens when they try to pay their bills at the end of the month, and they don’t see improvement and they don’t believe the president is paying attention.”
Americans see President Trump “focusing on the ballroom and they see him on trips abroad and they see him talking about the Nobel Prize and they see him talking about repainting the bathroom in the Lincoln Bedroom,” Axelrod said.
“They’re saying, ‘What does this have to do with my life?'” he said. “The more they insist on making things better because they have made great economic achievements, the more they seem alike [former President] Joe Biden did this when he was running for president and got into real trouble for doing so. You can’t force people to feel what they’re not feeling.”
Greene has become more critical of her party over the past several weeks, particularly House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) handling of the government shutdown. On Wednesday, he told host Blake Berman on NewsNation. she yelled at him On the “complete failure” to keep the House out of session.
“And it’s up to the Speaker of the House,” she said. “While the rest of America is going to work every day, you’re going to work, people in this building are going to work, Mike Johnson is telling us to stay home and not do our jobs.”
green Johnson was also called On October 28, when he offered no details about the Republican health care plan amid the shutdown, Democrats said Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies would expire at the end of the year unless Congress agreed to extend them.
“Johnson said he has ideas and pages of policy ideas and that jurisdictional committees are working on it, but he refused to offer a policy proposal on our own conference call at our GOP convention,” the Georgia Republican posted. social media platform x“Apparently I have to go to SCIF to find out the Republican healthcare plan!!!”
Stephen A. During a Wednesday appearance on Smith’s podcast ““Straight Shooter,” Johnson said he is “Not used to” To hear Green’s criticism.
“She can come and talk to me anytime, but she goes to these shows,” Johnson said. “She loves getting big interviews and that’s OK. Everyone has the right to that.”
