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AXELROD: “I absolutely think that that's what it is. And I don't -- you know, I don't know if I put it just that way, but I think that he's on point there. The one thing I would disagree with is, you know, Donald Trump was less popular in this exit poll by a small margin than was Kamala Harris. So I don't know whether it was a ringing endorsement of Donald Trump as much as a rejection of the -- of incumbency, but also of this attitude that he's speaking of. I mean, I think we need to -- we owe people the -- the respect, the respect for what they do and what they mean, you know, and all these blue-collar workers and people who do things with their hands in the back, they make this country go."
BASH: "Mm-hmm."
AXELROD: "They're doing important work. And we calling this --"
BASH: "And they used to be the backbone of the party."
AXELROD: "Yeah. And they --"
BASH: "Yeah."
AXELROD: "-- and they -- and they feel like they are thought of as less and that their priorities are not the priorities of the Democratic Party."