Axelrod on Dems Politicizing Amtrak Crash: ‘Wasn’t Right Thing To Do’
TODD: "All right. Let me now switch gears, infrastructure funding. David, do you believe your party should be trying to take political advantage—"
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AXELROD: "No. Look, I think one of the things, I agree with Cory Booker that the lack of investment in infrastructure generally has been scandalous, particularly in an era of very low interest rates. The fact that we haven’t taken advantage of that is really scandalous. But I also think Americans get very, very fed up when they see, I mean, before the bodies are even removed from the crash, people are rushing to try and blame each other for it. And they’re looking for our folks to find out what happened and address it. And so no, I don’t think it was the right thing to do to leap in and politicize the thing."