David Axelrod: ‘Let’s Be Absolutely Blunt … There Is Racial Bias in This Country and There Is Sexism’

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AXELROD: "You know, I would love to hear from Van on this, but let‘s be honest on this, okay, let's be absolutely blunt about it. There were appeals to racism in this campaign, and there is racial bias in this country and there is sexism in this country, and anybody who thinks that that did not in any way impact on the outcome of this race is wrong. I am not saying that was the main reason that Kamala Harris lost and Donald Trump won. I think they ran, honestly, strategically, his campaign, I said many times, they ran a very smart campaign. It was ultimately rational, well-conceived and well-executed campaign for an often irrational candidate, and they overcame him to sell his message or the message that they thought he should be selling to the country. But let‘s not confuse what this was and wasn‘t. Let‘s be very clear-eyed about it."