All posts tagged "Karl Rove"

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.

In a video put out by The Atlantic, Rove repeats "stone cold loser" in Trump's voice while moving his hand and frowning like the president, prompting laughter and enthusiastic applause from the audience of The Atlantic's panel watching the event....

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.

Rove announced his split during a members-only lunch event at the Headliners Club in Austin, where he explained that he made his decision after Republican Bo French posted racist comments about South Asian students at the University of Texas. However, in a Wednesday Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rove tore into the GOP, saying it wasn't just French that turned him off from his own party....

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.

Trump's pitch is to lean into his own record, Rove noted, based on reporting by The Atlantic and Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy. Trump will build ads from his on-camera statements and barnstorm toss-up districts himself, Rove predicted. Trump's reasoning is that since Democrats will make November a referendum on him regardless, he might as well own it, Rove wrote....

Veteran journalist Dan Rather sees potential good that can come out of the GOP's "never-ending trainwreck" playing out before him.

In his latest Substack piece, Rather wrote that infighting between Republicans and Trump will "be good for the country" if it manages to nix some of the president's more outrageous plans.

Rather observed how Republicans are responding to the creation of Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund. It was created as part of a settlement for a lawsuit by Trump against the IRS....

Karl Rove — the longtime Republican strategist behind George W. Bush's presidency — is lamenting that politics has become cheapened by constant attention-seeking. And he's pinning the blame primarily on President Donald Trump.

In a Wednesday op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, Rove bemoaned the current state of American politics as "way too loud and much too small." And he observed that rather than dealmaking and legislating, modern-day politicians instead favor "ever more exotic social media antics."

"We’re witnessing the rise of a new class of political performance artists. They want to be at the center of national attention, creating chaos and conflict, shocking sensibilities and unleashing dark passions," Rove wrote. "The hard work of legislation, of addressing Americans’ real needs, is of little interest. Instead, they compete to see who can say the most outrageous and inflammatory things. Their goal is more posts, more views, and more reactions — positive or negative, it doesn’t matter."...

Republicans are facing some "difficult news" about Donald Trump, according to a conservative legend Sunday.

Conservative Timothy P. Carney recently wrote an article for Washington Examiner called, "The Trump Era Is One of GOP Decline," in which he argued that Trump is a drag on the Republican party despite in many ways being "good for the GOP and conservatism."

"Republicans won two of the three presidential elections (after losing two straight and four of six). Republicans control Congress, and for the first time in forever, the Supreme Court has a conservative majority. It even struck down Roe v. Wade," he added, before saying, "But just as Trump’s policy record is mixed (increased spending, federal support for in vitro fertilization, oodles of corporate welfare), so is the Trump-era political record."...