Karl Rove and Brit Hume ‘Shocked’ By Trump Campaign’s Lack of Focus: ‘Trump Himself’ Needs to Stay on Message

Fox News’ Karl Rove and Brit Hume expressed their disappointment in the Trump campaign’s lack of focus on Sunday, arguing that “the candidate himself” must stay on message.

The pair’s lament came after anchor Bret Baier observed that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is more trusted than his his Democratic counterpart, Vice President Kamala Harris , on a number of issues.

“Yeah, by big margins and particularly immigration. But look, we’re in a moment where the issues are not going to matter for the next several days. I think the Trump-Vance ticket is smart to go to Pennsylvania where they will get local coverage, but they’re not going to be able to argue against, you know, shouting into the wind as this convention goes. But you’re absolutely right when it when the Democrats finish on Thursday night, if Trump wants to win, then he’s got to have a disciplined approach to keep the focus on those three big issues,” argued Rove . “I’ve been shocked, frankly, that in the last several weeks, the last three weeks since the July 21 decision by President Biden, that the Trump campaign has not been as focused as it should be.”

“Think about this,” he continued. “They could have come out and said Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote, broke the tie in the Senate for the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that even Democratic economists said, ‘If you pass that bill, it’s going to cause inflation.’ Then she voted, provided the key vote to break the tie, to pass the FY22 budget with hundreds of billions of dollars of additional spending, and then turned around and did it again with the next year’s budget. They could have said three times she has struck out by voting for additional spending that caused the inflation that we’ve all had to deal with, and yet relatively silent on the issues.”

After predicting a post-convention bounce for Harris, Hume agreed with Rove.

“Of course Karl is absolutely right. Kamala Harris is about as vulnerable a candidate that you could think of short of Joe Biden himself. And his [Trump’s] campaign should have no trouble,” he said. “I mean, she’s a self-described radical. Not only did she cast the votes that Karl described, she’s had issue positions on a range of issues, that she’s never publicly repudiated. There have been leaks from her campaign suggesting that she’s moved away from those positions, but that ought not to be enough. Trump himself, the media is not going to do this job, at least it’s shown no disposition to do the job of taking a really hard look at her record, so it’s up to the Trump campaign.”

“You can do it to some extent with ads, and I’m sure they will,” concluded Hume. “But it would certainly help the Trump campaign if candidate himself would be prepared with specificity to pinpoint these issues where Harris has positions that cannot possibly command a majority.”

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