David Axelrod knocks Jon Ossoff over ‘gratuitous’ Natalie Harp jab

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Former Obama adviser David Axelrod criticized Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Wednesday for invoking President Donald Trump aide Natalie Harp in a viral speech, arguing the personal reference distracted from an otherwise powerful attack on the president.

“No one has been more consistently eloquent or incisive in exposing @realDonaldTrump than @Ossoff,” Axelrod wrote on X. “The paragraph from his weekend speech that has gotten so much attention was a brutal takedown.”

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