Early this morning, a bipartisan group of eight senators who have been working behind closed doors for months on the sort of comprehensive immigration overhaul that President Barack Obama has been seeking filed their bill in the Senate. Later this...
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Republican Immigration ‘Hall Pass’ — 2016 and 2014 Explain it All
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Repairs are made to the USS Bulkeley as it is docked at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Norfolk, Virginia, on Feb. 28, 2013.
Sequestration ‘Slow-Motion Accident’
As President Barack Obama gathers leaders of both parties of both houses of Congress today at the White House, before the near-midnight point at which the White House will have to order an across-the-board sequestration of discretionary spending, a former...
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David Axelrod on 'Meet the Press' in Washington on Jan. 20, 2013.
Axelrod on the Air: NBC, MSNBC
David Axelrod shaved his moustache in a simulcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and NBC’s “Today Show.” Now he’s coming back as a paid political analyst. The Chicago-based political strategist and one-time political reporter for the Chicago Tribune who nurtured Barack...
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Eric Holder, U.S. attorney general, listens to a question during a news conference in Washington on Feb. 5, 2013.
Top Holder Aide to Leave Justice for Axelrod Firm
A top aide to Attorney Eric Holder will depart next month to join the public relations firm co-founded by one of President Barack Obama’s closest advisors, political strategist David Axelrod. Tracy Schmaler, head of the Justice Department’s public affairs operation, will...
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Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner arrives at his weekly news conference on Dec. 20, 2012 on Capitol Hill.
Boehner’s Moment, Party Harmony’s Over: Plan B Yields to Plan G
House Speaker John Boehner has gone from Plan B…. “To Plan C ya’ later,” David Axelrod, the longtime consultant to President Barack Obama now leading a political institute at the University of Chicago, said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” We won’t...
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Sen. Jim DeMint at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.
Washington Daybook: DeMint Sees Obama Win
President Barack Obama may be gaining the upper hand in negotiations with Republicans over avoiding the fiscal cliff. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, said this morning that a “political trophy” is within Obama’s grasp. “He’s going to get...
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David Axelrod, senior strategist for President Obama's re-election campaign, reflects on the 2012 contest during a public forum at the University of Chicago on Nov. 26, 2012.
Axelrod Shares His Romney Campaign Surprises
David Axelrod didn’t have much praise for Mitt Romney’s campaign when asked last night what the Republican challenger and his aides did well in the 2012 presidential race. “They raised money well,” said Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s longtime political strategist....
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``What you guys have done means that the work that I'm doing is important, and I'm really proud of that,'' he said, choked up and wiping back a few tears.
Obama: `I Had This Vague Inkling’ — Choked Up, Tears, in Remembrance
Talk about pumping up the team: President Barack Obama, who came up as a community organizer in Chicago, addressed some of his re-election campaign’s volunteers and staffers in Chicago following his victory this week — and he saw, in the...
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama talk with senior campaign advisor David Axelrod following Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention.
Obama’s `Loins’ Drive Final Appeal
David Axelrod has known Barack Obama a long time. Yet the senior political adviser to the president of the United States says he’s never seen Obama “more exhilarated than he is right now.” He’s watching Obama make the closing arguments...
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Damage in the Rockaway neighborhood, on Oct. 31, 2012, where the historic boardwalk was washed away during Hurricane Sandy in the Queens borough of New York City.
`Frozen’ Presidential Race Thaws, Heating up for Homestretch
Superstorm Sandy “tended to freeze” the presidential race while Americans focused on the storm, President Barack Obama’s strategist David Axelrod said on a conference call with reporters today. Axelrod, saying he was reluctant to discuss the political impact of an...
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