GOP lawmakers panicked they 'can't count' on 'out-of-touch' Trump: report
Donald Trump’s obsession with all things Donald Trump has Republican Party lawmakers realizing that they can expect little to no help from the White House with the midterm election looming and GOP fortunes collapsing along with the president’s polling numbers.
Using a column from former White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove penned for the Wall Street Journal as a leaping-off point, MS NOW’s Jonathan Lemire claimed he is hearing from GOP lawmakers that they feel that their fears are being ignored.
According to Rove, “[Trump’s] pace is unrelenting. He throws at reporters so much fluff — personal asides, fulminations about adversaries real and imagined, commentary on culture and self-congratulation — that the press and public often ignore important things. This pace is also unsustainable. There are signs that the public is tiring of his hyperbole and insatiable desire for retribution. Increasingly, they may hear only the offensive or cruel things he says.”
After reading excerpts from the Rove piece, Lemire told “Morning Joe” co-host Katty Kay, “Over the last month or two, President Trump seems out of touch, that he's been out of touch with what got him elected a year ago. He's out of touch with what voters seem to really care about. He's still mostly calling affordability a hoax.”
“Now he's starting to talk about pricing a little bit,” he conceded. “You know, he's instead focusing on, okay, some foreign policy — that's fair. But a lot of business deals that seem to enrich [him] and his family, things like the Kennedy Center, things like the ballroom, which, you know, he was going on about yesterday.”
“Karl Rove makes the point that I'm hearing from more and more Republicans, that they just feel like they can't count on Trump right now to talk about what they need him to talk about, barreling into a midterms year,” he added.
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