Fox News contributor Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of staff, joins Trey Gowdy with insight on 'Hannity.'
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I think there is a minimum need
to be charged the officers and
as well as for Breonna Taylor.
Joining us now is Karl Rove.
How are you
honored to be on with you
give us your assessment of
the state of the race on
September? Second,
during the Democratic
National Convention, Joe Biden
and the Democrats never
mentioned the violence in
Americas cities.
We have been subjected to night
after night of riots in Portland,
and I remember one night. The
next morning Senator Harris was
attacking a witness in front of
her saying. Why are you attack
the moms and veterans that are
peacefully protesting?
We see tonight, people attempted
to DE orbit burn burn down.
The courthouse
Biden has been unwilling to take
on the violence in the streets
until he is hit by tv aside and
hit by the Trump campaign
feels like he is fading in the
polls.
Only then does he give one
speech and immediately attempts
to blame the violence on Donald
Trump.
We are a country of personal
responsibility.
Donald Trump is not responsible
for people trying to fire bomb.
The courthouse in Portland
Oregon
those people are responsible and
ought to be held responsible
under our rule of law.
If the race is tightening,
what areas does the President
need to appeal to, and can we do
so without alienating his base?
It is tightening.
We dont know how much yet
we needs polls on Sunday,
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdayo.
The convention is in the
rear view, Mirror
USA today in June, a twelve point
gap for Biden and now seven
Harris had nine points today, plus
six
emeron four points for Biden and two
points today
there is one that had ten before
the Democratic National
Convention and nine after and
now its eleven today.
My sense is that the polls have
tightened some.
This is like world war. I
any movement will be difficult
and small,
but its been good movement for
the president.
What does he need to do?
The presidents base is with
him.
No president ever gets elected
on the basis of their base. Only
the president has to continue to
do what he did during the
Republican National Convention
make an appeal for a broader
group of people,
college educated women
by african american voters,
particularly young black males,
who say I had better prosperity
than when Barack Obama was
president, and it was because of
the policy of Donald Trump.
We saw that in the spring before
the coronavirus came on
the feeling was there among
african american voters.
This will grab you
Latinos.
The president has the ability to
go from the twenty eight or twenty nine in twenty sixteen up
to twenty four twenty, five and twenty six
again largely because they felt
they got a better economic deal.
When he was in office.
He has a variety of people in
the latino community who say he
is standing up for us
for law abiding people who go to
church and provide for their
families.
He is standing up to keep us
safe.
He has to do what he started
doing in the convention,
thats, why it was so effective.
The first night, Herschel Walker,
anchored by your former
colleague and Governor Nikki
Haley
thats, the Republican Party, the
american people, need to see.
When I hear you say that I
think our policies may be
attractive to constituencies.
That did not do that in the past,
but repelled in our rhetoric
do we need to be better at
messaging.
Thats part it, but we have to
show up in between elections.
I live in Texas.
Our republican governor was
reelected last time with fifty percent of
the hispanic vote.
Our candidates make it part of
their existence to campaign in
the valley and go to San Antonio
and meet the leadership of the
hispanic community
thats. What we have to do as
a party,
its not just a convention,
its a lifelong commitment to
show up and get involved in the
community.
Karl, let me ask you about
something that happened last
night,
Joe Kennedy.
When I served with him, he was
the hardest working colleague we,
and that was true on both sides
of the aisle.
He may have been the most humble
and was progressive, but yet he
lost
was this a clearing of the field
by AOC for a future presidential
run or is there no place for Joe
Kennedy?
Kennedy was probably not
liberal enough.
Ed Markeys embrace of the Green
deal and the embrace of him by
AOC cemented him in the
Democratic Party
that was the hard left and Ed Markey played to them.
Markey played to them.
He had the advantage of incum
incumbency.
Thinks of how many people he
helped over the years
Kennedy, having represented just
a congressional district doesnt,
have that statewide base
its hard to knock off an
incumbent unless they have done
something really really wrong.
Even if you are a Kennedy,
this looked like a reach.
It looked like he was a little
bit too ambitious and people
said we are not finished. Letting
Ed Markey serve
its not your time. This time.
Transcript generated on 2020-09-08.