Former Obama adviser David Axelrod warned that Democrat efforts to prevent former President Donald Trump from running in the 2024 presidential elections risks tearing the country apart.
“I have very, very strong reservations about all of this,” Axelrod told CNN’s OutFront host Erin Burnett.
“I do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of people want to vote for him.”
“I think if you’re going to beat Donald Trump, you’re going to probably have to do it at the polls,” he continued.
Axelrod, who served as Obama’s senior adviser from 2009-2011, went on to explain how the Democrats’ lawfare strategy is playing into Trump’s hands given part of his platform rests on exposing the corrupt bureaucracy that’s weaponizing government power to target him and his supporters.
“A lot of the motivation for [Trump’s] candidacy was as a legal defense strategy,” Axelrod said. “He wanted to set up a construct…which says that they’re coming after him because he’s running for president and they’re trying to prevent him from being president.”
Axelrod further lamented that the Democrats’ political “experiment” of repeatedly indicting Trump ahead of the election has only fueled his momentum.
“We’ve run this experiment, he’s only gained since he started getting indicted,” Axelrod noted. “What you thought might be kryptonite for him has turned out to be battery packs, and this is a big one for him.”
“All of this is strengthening him in the Republican primary,” he added.
This comes after Maine’s radical left Secretary of State Shenna Bellows unilaterally removed Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential primary ballot
Bellows cited news reports and YouTube clips as a basis for her unprecedented undemocratic action, which even CNN ridiculed.
Bellows’ action comes on the heels of the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump was barred from appearing on the state’s 2024 ballot because he “incited an insurrection” on January 6, 2021.
The U.S Supreme Court is set to weigh in on that ruling as Democrats in California, New York and other blue states also prepare to boot Trump from their state ballots using the 14th Amendment insurrection argument.
Axelrod said he “expects” the Supreme Court “will leave him on the ballot.”
Trump has since been placed back on the Colorado ballot pending the Supreme Court review.
