The last couple weeks have shown the Democratic Party is a mess, according to GOP strategist Karl Rove.
The former White House deputy chief of staff under George W. Bush said the party’s scandals and actions since Jan. 27 have revealed “serious problems.”
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal published Wednesday, he argued the troubles began when former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced he is considering running for president as an independent and Democrats were quick to accuse him of helping to re-elect President Trump.
The fissures continued when Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam defended a failed late-term abortion bill, Northam admitted to wearing blackface, the state’s Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was accused of sexual assault, and Virginia’s attorney general admitted to also wearing blackface, Rove wrote.
Rove also listed the controversy over Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s, D-Mass., 1986 Texas Bar application, which the Washington Post obtained and published this week. Warren identified herself as an “American Indian” on the application, yet another instance she claimed Native American ancestry on an official document.
“All this is evidence the Democrats don’t have their act together. As they gear up investigations and campaigns, their party’s radicalism, fault lines and lack of preparedness will become more evident,” Rove wrote.
Despite the Republican Party having its own issues, he said, the latest controversies could boost the GOP.
“Both parties are broken,” Rove wrote. “Mr. Trump is betting his re-election that the Democratic Party is the more defective of the two. It’s not an insane wager.”
