Via Ballot Box:
David Axelrod, a top campaign adviser to President Obama, said comprehensive immigration reform had not occurred during Obama’s first term because the Republican senators who’d backed it during President George W. Bush’s presidency were not willing to stand up and work with Obama.
“A lot of Republicans in Congress want to cooperate, they know better, but they are in the thralls of this reign of terror from the far right that has dragged this party to the right,” Axelrod said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning.
Obama tried to work across the aisle but was rebuffed by Republican senators who were scared of the politics of immigration, Axelrod said.