Longtime GOP strategist and commenter Karl Rove predicts President Donald Trump’s tariff policies will cost Republicans next year’s midterms, calling the administration’s messaging “a muddled mess.”
“The story isn’t good for the GOP,” Rove said in a column published in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday.
Rove warned fellow Republicans that Trump’s “tariff demands are weighing him down” as his general job approval sinks and voters disapprove of his handling of the economy, citing data from RealClearPolitics.
Trump and Rove have clashed in recent weeks as the Bush administration’s senior adviser became critical of the president’s strategy.
Last month Rove said Trump’s approval ratings are in “bad shape” when it comes to the economy. He also appeared on Fox advising the president to cooperate with the courts in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia deportation case. Trump responded on Truth Social by calling Rove “a total Loser who’s been wrong about almost everything!”
