David Axelrod

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

As the @POTUS boasts of the value of mitigation, the Rs in Wisconsin, supported by the @GOP-dominated supporter state Supreme Court, are pressing ahead with Tuesday’s primary, overruling the governor’s emergency public health order. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Captain Crozier heroically stood up for his sailors, which is why his crew gave him a thunderous ovation when he left his ship. The Secretary of Navy, who called him “stupid,” is the one who should be sent packing. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

“It would be so much nicer if you would not disrupt my relentlessly glowing self-evaluation.” — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Uh oh, another IG about to bite the dust. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

So freakin’ wearying to have to listen to him deliver his daily report card. It is always an A. How about let’s get to the people who can tell us what is actually happening? — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Like OH Gov. @MikeDeWine last month, @GovEvers is invoking his public health authority to delay WI primary. It would have been absurd & unsafe to hold a primary requiring people to leave home at the very same time a stay-at-home order is in place! https://t.co/6Xn5gxcMxK — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @kaitlancollins: It's still remarkable that a month ago the surgeon general was emphatically telling people to stop buying masks because… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Here’s some good news. Even amid the virus and stay-at-home directives, the Tooth Fairy is still making rounds! https://t.co/MVUwtl7xuY — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Spot on. https://t.co/T94rEbcoeb — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

I reached into the #AxeFlles vault for this ‘16 convo w/ acclaimed historian @DorisKGoodwin. We spoke about the qualities of leadership and how personal adversity helped forge the character of the great presidents she’s studied. Pod here👇 https://t.co/7DUH18yWZ2 https://t.co/4A8OQsbs5k — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Maybe it will prove our that hydroxychloroquine will have a positive effect for COVID-19 patients but it hasn’t yet. This piece speaks to why medical professionals find @realDonaldTrump’s strange, relentless promotion of it is irresponsible and dangerous. https://t.co/1ui1DmkeGe — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Powerful and courageous piece by @yangyang_cheng, a brilliant young writer and scientist from China who, several years ago, was one of the first student leaders at @UChiPolitics. Please read it. https://t.co/YcLqeNmRzD — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @PhilipRucker: The @JDiamond1 asked Dr. Facui, an infectious disease expert, to weigh in on Trump’s sales pitch for hydroxychloroquine.… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

A reporter asks about an AP finding that the Feds didn’t start adding to its stockpile of ventilators, masks and PPE until mid-March, months after the crisis was indicated. The @POTUS cuts him off, slimes the AP and then hides behind FEMA and the military, never answering. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not a little cover. What I meant is, it sheds a little light on the battle between the @POTUS’s loyalists and Fauci and the experts about how aggressively to lean into pushing yet unproven drug therapies, as the president insists on doing. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

This adds a little cover to the POTUS’s relentless boosterism over these unproven drugs. So let me ask YOU: If you’re sick with an infectious disease, would you do to “Doctors” Trump, Kushner and Navarro? Or Dr. Fauci? https://t.co/VXxrrt0tVa — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Here’s the problem: These are not briefings. These are sales pitches from @POTUS on his own behalf-laced w/shots at whoever he’s mad at that day and weird side trips to push untested drugs. What people need is useful 411 about what we need to do and should expect. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Once again, the @POTUS practicing medicine without a license, urging people to use drugs that have not yet been proven as useful here and could have negative effects. What is up with that? — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

WA is in “good shape” relative to ventilators, as the @POTUS just noted, because @GovInslee also took aggressive action very early to impose social distancing. This is the game gov the president previously called a “snake,” after he criticized the federal response. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

As I noted earlier, IL Gov. @JBPritzker has been outstanding in this crisis, taking decisive action while the @POTUS dithered. The Gov criticized aspects of the federal response so, of course, a thin-skinned president just offered a gratuitous-and unfounded-pot shot, in reply. — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Following the president’s lead, the Wisconsin @GOP refuses the governor’s request to delay Tuesday’s election in favor of a mail-in primary in May. Why? Because they’re afraid mail-in voting will become the norm. Politics over public health. https://t.co/WonkCcBhIk — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @crampell: “Bush did not just insist on preparation for a pandemic. He was obsessed with it.” https://t.co/OzI85uh8Qb — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @jmartNYT: “Can you imagine if Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ‘I’ll be right behind you, Connecticut. Good luck building those battlesh… — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

The @POTUS owes an apology to every health care worker & first responder who doesn’t have equipment they need because of the months the admin squandered once the COVID-19 alarm was sounded. The impact of the delay on ventilators could be felt this week. https://t.co/kULH77aWoz — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

In 2009, @BarackObama talked to @drsanjaygupta about becoming surgeon general but timing wasn’t right. On the @AxeFiles, I asked him whether he would consider public office to promote better health strategies. His answer below: And here’s the full pod👇 https://t.co/7DUH18QxQA https://t.co/HPsyq7ZIPt — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Proud of my home state governor and local mayor for their tireless efforts during this unparalleled (in our lifetimes) public health crisis. Thank you, @JBPritzker and @chicagosmayor! https://t.co/bZzoqXGaQD — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Surgeon General is doing something the @POTUS has maddeningly refused to do, and that is implore 8 holdout governors to join the rest of the nation in issuing stay-at-home directives to help flatten the curve. https://t.co/8xATjvpCOu — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

RT @emptywheel: Trump here blames the sailors on USS Teddy Roosevelt for making a port call in Vietnam, which was on March 5. Trump had a… — PolitiTweet.org

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@drsanjaygupta Such a pleasure, @drsanjaygupta! Could have talked for hours more! But you have the busy beat these days. So happy you’re on the case! — PolitiTweet.org

David Axelrod @davidaxelrod

Why these 8 Republican governors are holding out on statewide stay-at-home orders - CNNPolitics https://t.co/jXya1Ep8jJ — PolitiTweet.org