Trump Seethes as Karl Rove Delivers Harsh On-Air Warning about Polls

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

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4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump is angry at longtime GOP strategist Karl Rove. That’s because Rove delivered Trump a stern on-air warning about his sliding approval ratings. What caught our attention, though, is what Rove said about immigration in particular. Rove suggested that Trump is in trouble on what’s supposed to be his best issue, and offered a striking explanation for it that surely got under Trump’s skin. This comes as Trump also delivered another diatribe about the Supreme Court for suggesting he does not have absolute power to deport millions with zero due process, suggesting he and Stephen Miller will cling to their deeply unpopular course of action no matter what. We talked to Lakshya Jain, co-founder of the Split Ticket election site, who explains how Trump is rapidly losing his onetime advantage on immigration, why this is such a momentous shift, and how Democrats can capitalize. Looking for More from the DSR Network? Click Here: https://linktr.ee/deepstateradio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Blast from the New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network.
0:16.5	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
0:30.0	A whole lot is happening for President Trump on the immigration front.
0:36.1	Trump just rolled out a plan to pay undocumented immigrants $1,000 to self-deport.
0:40.5	And Trump just made some dark comments about the Supreme Court,
0:44.1	suggesting that the justices had better rule his way on this issue,
0:47.8	or they'll face the wrath of the people, meaning the wrath of Maga.
0:51.6	All this comes as Carl Rove, of all people,
0:56.1	just hit Trump with a surprising warning on this issue. Rove said Trump is undermining his own standing on immigration, and the way Rove made this point captures
1:02.0	something essential about this moment. So we're going to unpack all of this with Laksha Jane,
1:07.5	a co-founder of the election site split ticket. Lakshah, good to have you on.
1:12.7	Thanks for having me. Let's start with what President Trump said about the Supreme Court. To catch people up,
1:18.7	the courts have said in several cases now that migrants he's deporting are entitled to due process
1:23.8	and that the administration must facilitate the return of wrongfully deported
1:28.3	Kilmar-Abrego-Garcia.
1:30.5	Trump seems angry about all this.
1:32.3	Here's what he said to reporters while on a plane.
1:35.1	The people elected me in a landslide with every single, we won every swing sit, we
1:40.7	want everything there is to win by big numbers.
1:44.1	Not only swings there, we won the popular vote by millions of votes.
1:48.0	They elected me. This was the number one issue. And now we have judged
1:51.5	and radicalized and the crazy. Because
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