Republican strategist Karl Rove on Friday all but acknowledged President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign will require a significant reboot in the coming months, conceding it lacks a consistent line of messaging to deploy against former Vice President Joe Biden.
“Let’s be honest about it: The president is behind today,” Rove told Fox News, referring to a series of recent surveys showing Trump trailing the presumptive Democratic nominee nationally and in several battleground states.
“These things happen in campaigns,” he argued, going on to contend that the “question is not, ‘Where are the polls today,’ but, ‘What does the president need to do in order to regain the advantage?’”
The dire remarks from one of the Republican Party’s most revered political minds — who POLITICO reported last week is now advising the Trump campaign — come amid escalating concerns within the GOP regarding the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and widespread racial unrest.
Trump’s erratic handling of those twin crises and increasingly incendiary rhetoric have exacerbated anxieties about his electoral prospects among congressional Republicans and other senior party figures.
The president did nothing to reassure allies during a town hall event Thursday night, when he offered a meandering answer to Sean Hannity after the Fox News host asked him about his priorities for a potential second term.
"I didn't know very many people in Washington" at the time of his inauguration, Trump said amid remarks that were widely panned as incoherent. "Now I know everybody."
On Friday, Rove assessed that putting forth a comprehensible agenda for the next four years is the “most important” step Trump should take to regain his footing over Biden in the White House race.
“What does he want to do next? No president gets reelected by simply saying, ‘I’ve done a good job,’” Rove said, warning that Trump “needs to get a better answer” to the question posed by Hannity.
“You can’t win unless you’ve got a disciplined, focused campaign strategy,” he added. “And these polls point to the president and his team needing to reexamine what they’re doing and come up with a better game plan.”
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