President Obama’s top campaign strategist said that Obama “will continue to fight” to eliminate superPACs after the presidential campaign, but needs superPACs for now to combat Republicans.
“The president is going to continue to fight for ways to reform this system, in the future, but that’s not going to happen in this campaign,” David Axelrod said today on Morning Joe, “and we have to live in the world as it is, not as we want it to be.”
Axelrod explained the campaign thinking behind the move. “We see Karl Rove, the Koch brothers, and others, talking about raising collectively upwards of half a billion dollars to try and defeat the president and we were faced with a situation as to whether we could afford to play by two sets of rules, and the answer is obviously ‘no’,” he explained. “But that doesnt mean that we believe that this is the best way for the system to function.”
