Axelrod: ‘It Drives Me Crazy’ When Biden Is ‘Extolling the Miracles’ of the Biden Economy

AXELROD: “I wouldn’t go out there and extol the miracle of the Biden economy. It just drives me crazy when he does that. He was on ‘The Today Show’ yesterday any get asked by Al Roker a very simple question, it was at the Easter egg hunt and Roker asked, ‘You know, a lot of people are worried that their bucks aren’t going as far. You know, what do you tell them?’ And instead of sort of doing what you’d expect Joe Biden to do, because he’s a person of empathy who grew up in a working class circumstance, and identify with the concern, he said, ‘You know, I’d tell them we’ve got the strongest economy in the world and, you know, we’re...’ — and he continues to do that. That is the wrong strategy. The right strategy is to say, ‘Look, we’ve made a lot of progress from the day I walked in the door as a country and I’m proud of our country for a fighting through this pandemic and getting her back to where we’ve got this much employment. But the fact is, the way people experience this economy is the way I did when I was growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. How much did you pay for the groceries? How do you afford the gas, the rent? And these continue to be a problem and I’m fighting that fight,’ and then I go through a few things that — you know. So I think he needs to put himself on the side of working people in their economic fight here.”