![]() ![]() Rove says the perception that Republicans in Congress have been ineffectual has garnered a huge support base for Trump. They want somebody strong who will take a brick and promise to throw it through a plate glass window," Rove said. "They think the country is going to hell in a handbasket. Republican strategist Karl Rove said that the unfavorable polls for this presidential election are "jaw-droppingly bad" and that voters are faced with "choosing between the lesser of two evils." He said Trump has "thrown out the rule book", and "anybody who says they know how this election will turn out is kidding themselves." Rove spoke at a Los Angeles World Affairs Council event Thursday, May 12th about American politics throughout history and his new book The Triumph of William McKinley: Why the Election of 1896 Still Matters.ĭonald Trump is "one lucky guy" who has read the mood - "rightly or wrongly" - of a subset of the Republican Party who are not particularly ideologically motivated but are angry about the direction of the country, and he has ridden that anger to the point where he is now the presumptive Republican nominee, according to Rove, a Republican strategist. ![]()
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