David Axelrod offers Hillary Clinton some 2016 advice
David Axelrod, President Obama's former senior adviser, is offering Hillary Clinton some strategic advice for her potential 2016 presidential bid.
Clinton shouldn't try to "run away" from the president, Axelrod said Tuesday on "CBS This Morning."
As "we saw in the midterms, that's not a good strategy," he said. He also said that Clinton needs to "define herself and where she wants to take the country in the future."
The former secretary of state's relationship with Mr. Obama has had its "peaks and valleys," Axelrod said. But, he concluded, their evolving relationship ultimately became one of the great stories of the Obama administration.
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Political strategist and longtime Obama adviser David Axelrod joins CBSN and weighs in on the 2016 presidential race.
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As a senior advisor to President Barack Obama, David Axelrod was right in the thick of some of the thorniest, most important, most controversial ...
When asked about the president's demeanor since the Democrats' major midterm losses, Axelrod said that while the Obama administration may have been presumed politically dead, the president has "had the best run he's had in years since." He suggested that the president has shifted his attitude, realizing he's got two years left in office. He noted that Mr. Obama has "a bounce in his step that I haven't seen in a very long time."
Axelrod also admitted to what he calls "a mistake that I take some responsibility for." As the administration scrambled to contain the financial crisis during their first months in office, Axelrod says he regrets using the president as too much of "an announcer for the government instead of the narrator of a larger theme."
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David Axelrod offers Hillary Clinton some 2016 advice