Bush’s Brain begs to differ
Not that Karl Rove is some kind of oracle. His reputation is overhyped. But I think he’s right about this:
Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove said Monday that former President Donald Trump’s ongoing legal problems are “dampening Republican enthusiasm” as the nation heads toward the midterm elections.
The more we talk about the “ boxes of material at Mar-a-Lago” the FBI seized earlier this month “and the less that we talk about the problems that we face as a country here and now, the better off the Democrats are,” Rove told Fox News host Martha MacCallum. “It raises their enthusiasm; dampens the Republican enthusiasm.”
Rove said Trump’s problems are causing a “tightening” in races, making some of them more competitive for Democrats. “The question is … where it’s going to be on Election Day?” he asked.
The GOP would be “better off” if President Joe Biden was in the news instead of Trump, Rove continued. “But that’s not where we’ve been.”
Trump think the opposite, believing that as long as he is in the news his cult will gather and do whatever he says. They might. But they are not a majority. There are Republicans and GOP leaning Independents who may not be quite as excited as the true believers.