Veteran political strategist David Axelrod knocked Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) on Monday for her sarcastic video response to backlash she faced over remarks about Medicaid cuts and death during a town hall last week.

"It was really insensitive of her to put that video up and politically stupid," Axelrod said in a panel discussion with CNN's Jake Tapper.

Ernst, a military veteran who has been in the Senate for more than a decade, posted a mock apology video on Instagram that showed her walking through a cemetery and discussing the backlash she faced from telling the Butler, Iowa crowd a day earlier, "Well, we’re all going to die" when an attendee yelled that people would die because of the Medicaid cuts in the House-approved version of President Trump's agenda-setting "One Big, Beautiful Bil

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