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Veteran Strategist Rove Says Trump Needs Clear 'Second-Act' Agenda
Newsmax ^ | 03 July 2020 | Cathy Burke

Posted on 07/05/2020 9:21:54 AM PDT by MagillaX

Home | Politics Tags: 2020 Elections | Joe Biden | Trump Administration | rove | trump | reelection Veteran Strategist Rove Says Trump Needs Clear 'Second-Act' Agenda Veteran Strategist Rove Says Trump Needs Clear 'Second-Act' Agenda Rove (Getty) By Cathy Burke | Friday, 03 July 2020 04:51 PM Political strategist Karl Rove on Friday said President Donald Trump, lagging in polls amid an economy crippled by the coronavirus pandemic, has to have a bold “second-act” agenda that’ll “grab the attention of the American people” if he wants to win reelection. In remarks on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom,” the former adviser to President George W. Bush said that “when you are in the barrel, you need to do something that says you are moving in a different direction.” “You have to do something that's big and grab the attention of the American people. It's a big new policy or a change in direction,” he said. Rove said successful reelection campaigns in the modern era — Bill Clinton in 1996, Bush in 2004 and a Barack Obama in 2012 — all said, ‘Here's what I've been doing.’ But all of them also said: ‘Here's the second act. Here's what I want to do in the coming four years.’” “The third thing that they would do in those speeches is say, Hhere’s a contrast between me and my opponent,’” Rove said. “The president needs to be ready by the time he appears in the national convention … to accept the nomination of his party. He has to have a bold agenda that he lays out for the second term and that he can contrast with Joe Biden.”

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Campaigns are often successful running an agenda especially against an incumbent opponent. Once in power people are able to see your agenda and normally vote accordingly.

Establishing a new agenda for an incumbent can have some risk. The agenda you choose may be unpopular with supporters and you can lose their allegiance.

But having a clear and concise message of a handful of goals can make getting a campaign message out easier.

For President Trump I believe a list of goals or agenda would be helpful if targeted to those issues people are showing displeasure with in the country.

Some brain storming of agenda items: Increased training for police officers and federal oversight force to review police activity for abuse and corruption.

Safe schools: from violence and political indoctrination

Zero interest educational loans to those living in inner cities.

Inner city church empowerment through block grants and community development to church communities

Drug addiction counseling services free of charge to inner city communities

This one will need to be a combo to fly. Increase of funding on the border wall along with guaranteed legal immigration admittance of immediate family members to the country after passing a background and medical check. Citizenship for those above a certain age would need to be applied for like normal.

Clear messaging that Marxist anarchists will continue to be arrested and punished

COVID19, the country needs to be open to work with minimal mandates that are reasonable. While waiting on a vaccine.

The Bernie supporters are still out there and they are not Biden friendly picking off a few of them would be helpful as well. School loan interest forgiveness would go a long way.

Swing voters are interested in living an event free life without much contention. Bringing up issues that will cause confrontation may not be helpful. But rather an agenda on how we can live in peace, safely and prosperous is appealing them.

1 posted on 07/05/2020 9:21:54 AM PDT by MagillaX
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To: MagillaX

Rove needs to be shown the door.

He is a Bush League Republican who wants to see President Trump fail.

We elected Trump to reverse the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) of which Rove was one of the architects.


2 posted on 07/05/2020 9:24:47 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MagillaX

Is Karl not paying attention???
Too busy playing with his weather machine that is now
unplugged?

The President presented his agenda at Mt.Rushmore!
It was the message America has been longing for.


3 posted on 07/05/2020 9:26:06 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: MagillaX
Yeah, we should listen to someone who advised his boss not to defend himself and to remain "above the fray."

The political paradigm that Rove believes exists doesn't anymore. I don't give a damn about political parties or groups like Club for Growth or Heritage Foundation.

4 posted on 07/05/2020 9:28:44 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!)
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To: MagillaX

“Veteran strategist” and proven failure


5 posted on 07/05/2020 9:30:57 AM PDT by silverleaf (Great Things Never Come from Comfort Zones)
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To: silverleaf

Gold plated never-Trumper. Needs to have his whiteboard shoved up where the sun don’t shine.


6 posted on 07/05/2020 9:32:53 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: MagillaX

No, Karl. Trump needs to hold fast to his original agenda and follow through as much as is humanly possible.

I still remember this asshole saying “you just don’t like brown people” to anyone opposed to amnesty.


7 posted on 07/05/2020 9:34:50 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: MagillaX
Veteran Strategist Rove Says Trump Needs Clear 'Second-Act' Agenda

Or else what ? The precious independents will go for Biden's agenda ? Does anyone even know what it is ? One of the smartest things Trump did in 2016 was to disregard the consultant class from failed administrations and failed candidates.

8 posted on 07/05/2020 9:35:03 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Right back atcha, Rove.
“We will never abolish the police,” he said... [President] Trump also said the US will build a new memorial park, featuring statues of “the greatest Americans who ever lived.”
Donald Trump slams 'far-left fascism' at Mt. Rushmore speech for July 4

9 posted on 07/05/2020 9:35:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Helmut Norpoth on Lou Dobbs

10 posted on 07/05/2020 9:35:42 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: MagillaX

Plenty of time. Today is for base.


11 posted on 07/05/2020 9:35:50 AM PDT by Raycpa
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12 posted on 07/05/2020 9:36:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: MagillaX

guaranteed legal immigration admittance of immediate family members to the country after passing a background and medical check. Citizenship for those above a certain age would need to be applied for like normal.
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Non-starter, you’re advocating amnesty, abandoning the rule of law and surrendering the country.
Illegal aliens must be repatriated, not rewarded.


13 posted on 07/05/2020 9:38:21 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MagillaX

Rove doesn’t even have a First Act.


14 posted on 07/05/2020 9:39:21 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: MagillaX
The Democrat/RINO criminal complex handed it to him on a silver platter with the Chinese virus pandemic hoax and the economic destruction it wrought:

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AGAIN


15 posted on 07/05/2020 9:44:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who could have guessed the Communist Revolution would arrive disguised as the common cold?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Rove is not wrong is his fundamental point that a President’s reelection campaign requires a different strategy and themes than the campaign that got the President elected. And Trump is waging his reelection campaign in such a manner, based on patriotism, law and order, and opposition to the radical Left. More than that is needed, but Trump has made a good start.


16 posted on 07/05/2020 9:47:38 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: MagillaX

Rove is getting paid by the new Fox C-Suite progressives.

He was the ‘grand wizard strategist’ for W’s ‘Second Act’. Yeah, how’d that turn out? I know he would say, “We won didn’t we?”

To which I would tear him a new one asking “Won what? A second term for dumbass W who stood down banking regulators and SEC enforcement leading to the greatest collapse to the American economy since the Great Depression culminating in the installation of an American-hating closet Muslim who conspired with domestic terrorists in the Weather Underground to form a civilian domestic Army as powerful as the U.S. Army now running loose as a paramilitary wing of the Democrat Party calling itself ‘Antifa’?

The question was whether W was a dumbass of his own making or was it an odious work product of a dumbass advisor?


17 posted on 07/05/2020 9:54:51 AM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: MagillaX

In some fairness, Trump has multiple times promised a comprehensive health care plan with deadlines that have come and gone, and hasn’t delivered.

Sorry if that chaps some asses here but that’s what the butt nekkid truth does.


18 posted on 07/05/2020 9:55:30 AM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" don't)
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To: Rockingham

Trump needs to follow through on restoring the rule of law.
Building the wall is only half the illegal alien problem.
Enforcement is required for those already here and visa overstays.


19 posted on 07/05/2020 9:59:18 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MagillaX

Rove needs to shut up.


20 posted on 07/05/2020 10:01:58 AM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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