One of then-President Barack Obama’s top political advisers pointed out over the weekend during a CNN interview that the “stakes are high” for Donald Trump in the upcoming election, should he lose to Vice President Kamala Harris.
In a segment with CNN host Michael Smerconish, David Axelrod said Trump will have to face several legal cases that are still not completely resolved if he’s not victorious.
“David, I have had callers to my radio program question whether he‘s trying to lose it, whether he‘s trying to tank it and my response is to say his liberty interest is on the line. This is a guy who for his own freedom and for financial reasons, he needs to win this race,” Smerconish said to begin the segment.
“Well I think that‘s part of the problem, Michael, I think he is, you know, the stakes for him are much larger than for any normal candidate because the consequences of a defeat is that he‘s going to have to face the bar of justice here and he thought he had beaten it. He thought that he had won,” Axelrod began.
“When we were in Milwaukee, the talk there was of landslide, and…it was it felt like they were talking about the terms of surrender that they were going to demand, and he was very he felt very serene that he had beaten this,” Axelrod continued.
