Karl Rove joined Fox News to give his opinion on the current situation in Iran and how President Donald Trump is handling things.
Speaking to Paul Gigot of The Journal Editorial Report on Saturday, Rove had a rather negative impression on the current administration’s “rhetoric on the war.”
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“Well, insufficient, and that’s timing. We had, you remember, the last few months of 2001 and virtually all of 2002 in order to make the case that action was needed against Iraq,” he recalled. “We had time at the U.N, the U.N. resolution. We had an authorization for the use of force resolution before the Congress. So we were able to consciously, deliberately, and over a long course of time to lay out the case. That’s not been the instance here. The president took action because he felt he needed to take action, driven by a desire to end this problem once and for all. And so he hasn’t had the time to do the run-up to this, in terms of laying out a plan and laying out a message to the American people. And it shows in all the polling.”
“Virtually every poll shows that the American people are unsupportive of the action that he is taking in Iran. But let’s dig a little bit deeper in that, though, Paul, because there’s an interesting thing I found by comparing the Fox poll and the Quinnipiac poll that you mentioned earlier. Fox asks in its poll, ‘Do you approve or disapprove of the current U.S. military action against Iran?’ Fifty percent approve. In the Quinnipiac poll, they asked two questions. ‘Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald J. Trump is handling the situation with Iran?’ Thirty-eight percent approve. ‘Do you support or oppose U.S. military action against Iran?’ Forty percent,” he pointed out. “So by asking this question, ‘Do you approve of Donald Trump?’ before you ask, ‘Do you approve of the action being taken there?’ it causes people who don’t like Donald Trump to, you know, flip. Twenty percent of Democrats agree with this first proposition. Five percent agree here, 7% here. Independents, 40% agree with this, 29% agree with this, but it pops back up to 37 when you put it back on, do you approve of what the military is doing? So unfortunately, for the president, he’s stuck. And he’s stuck with if it’s Donald Trump is doing it, there are going to be few Democrats who approve, and a lot of independents who don’t.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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