Karl Rove: If Donald Trump Wins Wisconsin, ‘The Contest Is Over’

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Veteran GOP strategist Karl Rove agreed with Donald Trump’s assessment of the Republican presidential race, saying if the frontrunner wins Tuesday’s primary in Wisconsin, the race for the party’s nomination is over.

“I think Trump’s right. If he wins Wisconsin, the contest is over,” Rove said Tuesday morning on Fox News. “If not, it’s going to go on and the math becomes somewhat more difficult.”

Trump told reporters in the state last week, “If we win Wisconsin, it’s pretty much over.”

But the billionaire’s reception in the Badger State has been mixed. Politico recounted Trump speaking to a half-empty venue in Milwaukee on Monday while rival Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) got star treatment in the city’s conservative suburb of Waukesha.

The frontrunner also seemed to walk in blind to a radio interview last week with the influential conservative talk show host Charlie Sykes, a Cruz supporter who hammered Trump on his policies before asking if Trump knew he was “a #NeverTrump guy.”

According to TPM’s PollTracker Average, Trump is leading Cruz by a slim 2.3 percent margin in the state.

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  1. I don’t think he does win WI,though. I think the tide has already shifted, and WI is just going to be the really big example of that.

    Take the opposite of what Rove is saying…if Trump doesn’t win WI, then the math becomes much harder for him and all those behind the scenes battles for delegates take on even greater relevance.

    Still, we will see later this evening.

  2. First, Rove the genius still thinks that Romney won Ohio, and second, trump will lose Wisconsin, according to all the polls.

    Besides all this, thanks for your wisdom, Karl.

  3. Way to go out on a limb there, Karl. You should stick to what you were really meant to be in life, namely a template for Mr. Potato Head toys.

  4. Karl Rove: ̶I̶f̶ ̶D̶o̶n̶a̶l̶d̶ ̶T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶ ̶W̶i̶n̶s̶ ̶W̶i̶s̶c̶o̶n̶s̶i̶n̶,̶ ‘The Contest Is Over’

    fixed it for him

  5. Karl Rove is an authority on Republican politics like Donald Trump is on ethical and moral integrity. Neither one can remember the last time they knew what they were talking about.

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