“He’s having the time of his life right now. I think he feels very much unrestrained in terms of speaking to all these issues,” Axelrod said in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday.
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He pegged former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as the most formidable potential Republican presidential candidate in the field, if he can make it through the GOP primary without compromising his position on immigration reform and other hot-button issues.
“That’s a big if. Because the center of gravity in the party has been so far to the right that the notion of getting through that process without having to compromise and make Faustian bargains, I think, is very remote,” Axelrod said.
