CNN's senior political commentator and host of "The Axe Files", David Axelrod, is a senior adviser to President Barack Obama. , 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential elections. The opinions expressed in this commentary belong to him. SeeOther Opinions on CNN.
(CNN)It has become a legend in Washington.
2012, Phase 1 {30 Senator Claire McCaskill has become an endangered political species-an increasingly Republican Missouri Democrat. And she knew she was against her the possibility of winning her reelection that year. As
McCaskill and her strategist saw Akin as her most defeating general election enemy and set out to take him there.
McCaskill was her friend and was happy to see her return to the Senate. But ten years later, in Donald Trump's time, I'm afraid of that tactic when Democrats across the country re-execute her main intervention strategy. It looks wise, but it nourishes growing jaundice about politics. But more than that, miscalculations can put the militants in an authoritative position.
And with Mastriano's first victory, Democrats continued to invest to influence other Republican races.
They got the desired result. Bailey won the landslide in the primary elections on Tuesday.
Full Disclosure, When I was a Democratic Campaign Consultant, I once created an ad by attacking a cheerful Republican front runner to interfere with the Republican primary. However, the attack was about the opponent's suspicious business practices, not his ideology, but the purpose of defeating him rather than promoting him in his primary.
This is another fish kettle.
But that aside, I have bigger and more practical concerns.
As a longtime campaign practitioner, I have no problems with hardball politics. In both Pennsylvania and Illinois, Akin's play may be remembered as winning politics in a tough year-the year proved to be very tough, and the old parlor tricks were terribly wrong. Unless it is a dangerous trick.
After all, the number of Democratic strategists who supported Donald Trump's nomination in 2016 was convinced that reality show stars would be dead-bang losers in the fall.