“The high command of Team Trump ought to be concerned about unifying the Republican Party,” Rove warned Tuesday night on Fox, citing the portions of non-Trump votes in the Republican primary states. (At the time, they ranged from 48% in Vermont to 23% in North Carolina.)
“There’s still some work to be done to unify the Republican Party, and that’s going to depend a lot on his tone tonight and whether or not he stops doing things like calling [Haley] ‘birdbrain’ and threatening that if you give money to her campaign you’re going to be permanently banned,” Rove said.
Trump’s feed on his own social media site Tuesday night was simply a list of states he had — as expected — won handily, with pictures of him superimposed over the state flags. But Trump has complained about Haley bragging after previous primary contests, despite losing (a streak that ended over the weekend with a win in the District of Columbia’s GOP primary), and he has downplayed whether she represents in part a Never Trump protest vote.
Before before polls had begun to close, Trump had already started to complain about Fox’s coverage and another analyst, Marc Thiessen.
But that social media rant ended on a Rovian note. “And while you’re at it, GET RID OF KARL ROVE!!!” he wrote.
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