Posted on 12/22/2017 10:42:51 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
Republican strategist Karl Rove said Friday that President Trump would be wise to spend 2018 focusing on his agenda, rather than campaigning leading up to the midterms.
In an interview on Fox News, Rove said that Trump has enjoyed a boost in his popularity in recent days because of his focus on tax reform. By putting an emphasis on his policy agenda, Rove argued, Trump could turn around his low approval ratings.
"He's not very popular and the way to become more popular is to become less political and more involved in his agenda," said Rove, a former senior aide to President George W. Bush.
Trump is fresh off the first major legislative victory of his presidency after congressional Republicans passed a sweeping rewrite of the nation's tax code this week. The president signed that measure into law on Friday.
For most of his first year in office, Trump has suffered dwindling approval ratings, which Rove attributed to the president's off-the-cuff attacks against critics and political opponents as well as his bombastic, combative rhetoric.
Trump has relished campaign-style rallies, even after taking office this year. He often uses the events to tout his victory in the 2016 election and boasting about his Electoral College win.
The Washington Post reported that Trump met earlier this week with his former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, the former head of the Republican National Committee, to discuss the 2018 midterms.
"The president ought to spend 2018 focusing on his job as president and advancing an agenda that makes a difference in the lives of ordinary Americans, and he should downplay politics," Rove said on Fox.
I predicted the President would continue to do rallies after being elected because it seemed he was having the time of his life and he would miss them. Obviously he could only do them occasionally but I think they energize him and take him out of the DC swamp to be with the people who elected him. All good reasons to continue to do them beyond whatever electoral considerations.
Now Rove is just a “Bad Memory” that won’t go away.
Singing “Take Your Charts and shove them, we ain’t listening to you any more”.
I’d love to have Rove tell me what horses not to bet on. How does this idiot still get paid for his nonsensical ramblings? They might as well pay me for nuclear physics musings.
He said Hillary would kill TRUMP!
He said rally crowd size doesn't equate to votes!
Karl Rove no one cares what you think and I mean no one.
What a lowlife bottom feeding swamp dweller.
He should rally in every Congressional District—all 435.
Go away Rove
Exactly!
That’s a pretty safe course of action.
It’s a good thing that Romney took Rove’s advice and defeated Obama in a landslide, just as Rove predicted.
STFUKR.
Karl Rove the un architect.........douchebag
OK now we know it is a great idea for 2018 rallies and they will help to sweep in a Trumpian Congressional tide come November.
Rove was integral in helping get W elected- but I am beginning to think he just got lucky.
He’s been wrong ever since.
Just burn Rove in effigy at each rally.
Rove and RINOs are so hated, the effigy
would have to be alternated with McConnell
and Ryan for fairness.
It’s a bad idea to keep smelling dry erase markers.
Do you think Trump and his advisors sit around saying “ Well here’s what Karl Rove recommends...” ?
Trump will do the opposite and come out on top.
Can’t Rove just fade away? He burned his bridges, the approach ramps and the roads leading up to them. Now a second chance is not an option. Carl, GTFO.
The consulting revenue must have tanked.
Has Rove graphed his “winning” campaign strategy, since #45 took office?
Probably, includes Rove’s wins in Alabama and Virginia. /s
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