himself. she was first to speak out against herman cain. now she s back live. plus the man who always knows which way the winds are blowing, political or otherwise. what you may not know about america s favorite weatherman. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the gop has really been the elephant in the room of american politics as the party s front-runners play a game of political musical chairs, with perry, michele bachmann, herman cain, now newt gingrich s turn. listen to what he said today after a meeting with donald trump. i want not yet. he s got to do this debate. and a trump endorsement isn t the only one in play, even though the cain train has run off the rails, the former candidate s endporsment could come any day. there s only one man who knows what it means for the president s re-election campaign and that s david axelrod who joins me now. welcome. good to be with you, piers. you re feeling fairly chipper, aren t you? you had an extraordinar
against herman cain. now she s back live. plus the man who always knows which way the winds are blowing, political or otherwise. what you may not know about america s favorite weatherman. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the gop has really been the elephant in the room of american politics as the party s front-runners play a game of political musical chairs, with perry, michele bachmann, herman cain, now newt gingrich s turn. listen to what he said today after a meeting with donald trump. i want not yet. he s got to do this debate. and a trump endorsement isn t the only one in play, even though the cain train has run off the rails, the former candidate s endorsement could come any day. there s only one man who knows what it means for the president s re-election campaign and that s david axelrod who joins me now. welcome. good to be with you, piers. you re feeling fairly chipper, aren t you? you had an extraordinary week, unemployment dropping below 9%
now? he has no one to blame but himself. she was first to speak out against herman cain. now she s back live. plus the man who always knows which way the winds are blowing, political or otherwise. what you may not know about america s favorite weatherman. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. the gop has really been the elephant in the room of american politics as the party s front-runners play a game of political musical chairs, with perry, michele bachmann, herman cain, now newt gingrich s turn. listen to what he said today after a meeting with donald trump. i want not yet. he s got to do this debate. and a trump endorsement isn t the only one in play, even though the cain train has run off the rails, the former candidate s endporsment could come any day. there s only one man who knows what it means for the president s re-election campaign and that s david axelrod who joins me now. welcome. good to be with you, piers. you re feeling fairly chipper, a
the obama campaign has to be cheered by the gingrich surge. is this the surge that will last? every other surge we have seen in the anti-romney candidate has collapsed. this one starts to feel like the one that could really last for a while and maybe even go all the way. i don t know about going all the way you certainly the romney people think it s got legs because they are responding to gingrich where they didn t pardon me, particularly respond to bachmann, perry or cain. but the other side of that is that and we talk bud this once before on the show that this is really the harry reid playbook. you run ads against the strongest opponent in the in the other guy s primary, hoping that the the weaker candidate emerges from it, which is what senator reid did and was successful at it. i m not so sure that will be the outcome here t may well be it has the opposite effect. by forcing romney to be tougher earlier than he would prefer to be if he does win the
the obama campaign has to be cheered by the gingrich surge. is this the surge that will last? every other surge we have seen in the anti-romney candidate has collapsed. this one starts to feel like the one that could really last for a while and maybe even go all the way. i don t know about going all the way you certainly the romney people think it s got legs because they are responding to gingrich where they didn t pardon me, particularly respond to bachmann, perry or cain. but the other side of that is that and we talk bud this once before on the show that this is really the harry reid playbook. you run ads against the strongest opponent in the in the other guy s primary, hoping that the the weaker candidate emerges from it, which is what senator reid did and was successful at it. i m not so sure that will be the outcome here t may well be it has the opposite effect. by forcing romney to be tougher earlier than he would prefer to be if he does win the nomination, by the time w