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Disbelief as Karl Rove's 'phenomenal' Trump impression sparks roaring applause

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove left onlookers in disbelief after he delivered a startlingly impressive impression of President Donald Trump.

On Saturday, reactions rolled in to Rove doing a standout Trump voice when asked to respond to the president calling him a "stone cold loser" in a Truth Social post. Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, drew Trump's ire after publicly announcing his plans to vote for a Democrat in a scathing op-ed about growing bigotry in the GOP.

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'I'll have no part of it': Karl Rove unloads blistering rebuke of GOP in op-ed about split

Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove went into more detail about his decision to split with his party in the upcoming elections with a blistering op-ed.

Earlier this week, the Texas Tribune reported that Rove, a former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, said he will vote for Houston Democrat Jon Rosenthal to serve on the Texas Railroad Commission.

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'Stone cold loser!' Trump melts down after Karl Rove's shock defection

President Donald Trump took to his Truth Social platform on Monday to throw fury at Karl Rove, a longtime Republican strategist who worked under former President George W. Bush.

"Karl Rove is so bad for the Republican Party, and completely wrong so often," wrote Trump. "He suffers from a major case of Trump Derangement Syndrome primarily because, for almost 10 years, I beat back and won against so many of the people and things that he wanted and espoused."

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Karl Rove alarmed as Trump's AI obsession creates a massive midterm headache

A stalwart of the GOP sounded the alarm on Monday during an interview on Fox News as one of President Donald Trump's priorities is shaping up to be a massive midterm headache for Republicans.

Trump has strongly defended the build-out of more artificial intelligence data centers across the U.S., a policy position that puts him at odds with 70% of American voters, according to a recent Fox News poll. Karl Rove, a former senior adviser to President George W. Bush, said during a new interview that the issue is creating headwinds for the midterms, which are already shaping up to be a slog for Republicans.

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Karl Rove warns Trump's midterm rally blitz will backfire on GOP candidates

Veteran Republican strategist Karl Rove warned that President Donald Trump's plan to headline the midterms himself will backfire on the GOP.

In a Wednesday op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Rove laid out the case. Trump announced during a Rose Garden Dinner on Wednesday that he plans to spend thirty days leading up to the midterms rallying for candidates narrowly behind or ahead or tied in the polls.

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Karl Rove ditches GOP after 30 years to back a Democrat over Bo French's racist rant

Karl Rove, former adviser to President George W. Bush and longtime Texas GOP political consultant, said he will vote for Jon Rosenthal, a Houston Democrat running to serve the Texas Railroad Commission, after Republican Bo French posted racist comments on Sunday about South Asian students at the University of Texas at Austin.

Rove made the comments at a members-only lunch event at the Headliners Club in Austin, where he called French a “bigot,” according to three attendees to whom The Texas Tribune has granted anonymity to discuss the conversation.

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Karl Rove spills on decades-old grudge behind his glee over Scott Pelley's ouster

Karl Rove took delight in veteran newsman Scott Pelley's firing from CBS News' "60 Minutes" and recounted his long-standing grudge against him.

The Republican architect of George W. Bush's presidency published a column Thursday in the Wall Street Journal recalling an incident from nearly 20 years ago that earned his lasting disdain for Pelley, who was pushed out after 37 years for challenging what he described as conservative political interference by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and her lieutenants.

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Trump explodes at Fox News over Karl Rove's remarks: 'Put him out to pasture, now!'

Despite former White House chief of staff Karl Rove’s prediction on Fox News on Thursday morning that the Democratic “blue wave” in November may not be as damaging to the Republican Party as has been predicted, the Republican commentator was the target of the president’s ire on Truth Social.

Toward the end of his Fox News segment, Rove off-handedly mentioned, “And remember, this is a contest between two unfavorables. The president’s unfavorability is at 40 percent. The Democratic Party’s unfavorability is below 37. So who’s more- who’s less popular and how’s that going to affect the outcome?”

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