Karl Rove used to be the unrepentant beating-heart of all things touching on Republican candidates and their race. That was then but is decidedly not now. In an environment where everyone who doesn’t support former President Donald Trump is rendered a “RINO,” there is simply no place for Rove to go. Thus it is that Rove can deliver somewhat neutral assessments of the presidential race itself. He did so on Fox News this last weekend and shot holes in the Trump narrative.
The people in the Trump campaign have desperately grasped at a single poll, one done by the campaign itself, in an effort to spin what was essentially unspinable. Such is the fate of any assertion that Trump won the debate as shown by… well, evidence?
Fox News host Paul Gigot had a reasonable question about the debate’s lasting power to influence voters, assuming it had any lasting power at all. As reported by Mediaite:
“So Tony Fabrizio, the Trump campaign pollster, sent out a memo later this week saying that their surveys show that the movement among undecided voters was towards Trump. Do you believe that?”
Rove did not believe as such and for good reason. There has been movement – albeit smaller than some would wish, toward Harris. Rove stated as reported above.
Well, every other poll shows that, has been conducted since the debate, shows that the movement has been towards Harris, albeit very modest. So I’m, you know, I’m always suspicious of campaigns that issue their own numbers in order to correct a bad day. But you know, right now the evidence tends to lean the other way.
Don’t go out on a limb, Karl. We understand, a gig on Fox News is always on the line when commenting on a Republican politician – this is especially true in evaluating Trump. It is best for a guest to hold their fire in a dire situation, but still, there are numbers. The movement is decidedly toward Harris. Rove saved himself, sort of, in stating that no poll has moved more than two points.
Yes, but in this election either side would buy two points at the sale price of $100 million… for each point. Additionally, in such a close election, with both candidates on the hunt for the elusive independent vote, if those two points come from the right places in the right states, they will almost certainly decide the election. This is true without regard to an eight point victory in the popular vote.
If Rove believes that the debate put two points in play – and he tentatively does, it means that Rove knows the debate will have lasting impact. Given that reality, Rove surely knows that Trump’s chances for success mirror those of a deep fried duck.
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More like a ‘deep fried f**ked duck’ I think.
Apparently, Both of these wanna-be assassins were trumptards that figured out, they were being lied to and turned into crazed trumpanzies! This is ALL brought on by the Reputins themselves! When someone figures out they have been lied to … who knows what they’ll do.
It’s an ugly but tragic fact that every single day in this country numerous people are murdered because their partner felt ‘betrayed’ by them. It’s why murder rates in small-town/rural America sometimes can exceed that in cities that are in the news for crime. Being from southern Illinois when I found myself stationed in the DC area in the 1980s the city had, due to crack become ‘murder Capital USA’ yet the per capita murder rate (murders per 100k people) was higher back in my home region of southern Illinois – the area south of I-64. MAGAs are f**ked in the head to begin with and most of them have lots of guns. And they LOVE them their Trump. If these two lost souls are anything to go by there’s an undercurrent of MAGAs out there that feel betrayed. Many have a history of violence and as I said access to guns. The Secret Service is right to be worried. All of us should be. I have no doubt there are hundreds more out there like the two we’ve seen emerge so far. Maybe into the thousands. Trump has been lucky so far in who has actually made an attempt. Someone just a bit more capable mentally could pose a grave threat.
It might turn out that the safest place for Trump after November could very well be the secure wing of a prison with extra guards overseen by a small Secret Service detail.