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.
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....