David Axelrod said Monday the indictments former President Trump faces have made him look “indomitable” and “strong.”
“I think we have to stop and acknowledge, the sort of moment that we’re in, where a guy who engineered an insurrection at the Capitol is on the verge of being his party’s nominee again. And I don’t want to in any way brush that point aside,” Axelrod, who was an adviser to former President Obama, said on CNN’s “The Source” with host Kaitlan Collins.
“But he is selling strength, and in a weird way, all of these legal travails that he has — all of these indictments, all of these lawsuits and so on — has given him a chance to look indomitable, look strong, look resilient and that’s actually, in some ways, helped him,” Axelrod said.
Trump is leading in polling in the race for the GOP presidential nomination by a large margin as the country prepares for results from Super Tuesday’s elections. In The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s national poll average for the GOP primaries, the former president leads his last major opponent, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, by 66.4 percent.
The former president also won an important legal victory Monday, with the Supreme Court ruling unanimously that Colorado could not disqualify him from the ballot under the 14th Amendment.
Trump told Fox News Digital that the decision was “both unifying and inspirational” in an interview.
“Today’s decision, especially the fact that it was unanimous, 9-0, is both unifying and inspirational for the people of the United States of America,” he added.