Trump will go to GOP convention a ‘martyr’: Ex-Obama strategist

David Axelrod, a former senior adviser to the president in the Obama White House, warned that Saturday’s Trump rally shooting could invigorate Republican National Convention attendees next week.

Former President Donald Trump, “assuming he is up for attending, and I assume he will be, will be greeted as a kind of martyr of this event and I think it could be angrier or could be more somber,” Axelrod said on CNN. “But it’s certainly not going to be the same.”