Ex-Obama Adviser David Axelrod Slams ‘Disruptive’ Effort to Keep Trump off the Ballot: ‘It Worries Me’

BURNETT: “But I know you’ve warned that this case could tear the country the apart. Those are the exact words you used. You don’t use them lightly. Why do you feel so strongly?”
AXELROD: “First of all, let me preface it by saying, you know, it is stunning that three years after President Trump left the capital in disgrace, having sold this lie that the election had been stolen from him and having incited people to storm the Capitol, that he is in the position he’s in and where in the position were in. I’m not here as an apologist for Donald Trump, and I’m certainly not here as a lawyer. But I’m sure that one of the things the Supreme Court has to consider is, what is the impact of a decision like that? You know, there are a lot — there are a myriad legal questions that they’re going to consider tomorrow, some will undoubtedly offer off-ramps if they want an off-ramp, but I’m trying to imagine what it would be like if the Supreme Court said, ‘We’re removing the front-running Republican candidate from the ballot,’ and essentially saying to the American people, ‘You won’t have the opportunity to vote for him.’ I think it would be very, very disruptive in this country. I think it will create a huge reaction and that worries me. It worries me because — partly because of Donald Trump, there’s so much cynicism about our institutions already. And, you know, the strength of our democracy are these institutions. You can argue that, well, that’s why you have to go the way the Colorado court suggests, but I think in the minds of many voters, this would be a subversion and it would draw a very strong reaction.”