Former President Donald Trump may very likely win the 2024 election, according to Fox News top political analyst Brit Hume, but he also predicted that it will be a close race due of the public’s distaste for Trump.
After Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and host Shannon Bream had an interview to discuss the status of the race with less than three months till Election Day, Hume joined a Fox News Sunday panel.
Bream mentioned that Vance had informed her that Republicans had a message that would win over voters, but she also referenced network polling that indicated 65% of Americans were dissatisfied with the way the nation was heading. She questioned Hume about why, despite the fact that a large number of voters were dissatisfied with the status of the nation, Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris were statistically tied.
“Because he’s Trump,” Hume said. “When you get down to it, the past eight to TEN years have been about Donald Trump. Everything has been about Donald Trump. I don’t think that the Democrats would have let Joe Biden get as far as he did if it wasn’t – if the party hadn’t been confident that the Republicans were going to nominate Donald Trump again, which the Republicans did.”
Hume came to the conclusion that more than half of voters disapprove of Trump.
Hume stated:
The fact that Biden was doing even as well as he did until the very end, is a testament to the fact that Donald Trump has a very hard, solid base of support, but it never gets above about 40 to 45 percent, maybe a little more at best. So, his weakness is the predicate for our politics going back now three elections.
He was able to surmount Hillary Clinton, a uniquely unpopular opponent, but he couldn’t beat Biden, and you know you look at the losses in the midterms – or the disappointing results in the midterms. It’s all about one thing, it’s about that. Donald Trump, no matter how enthusiastic supporters are, nonetheless, is not a majority candidate. He might win, but he’s not a majority candidate.
Bream questioned Karl Rove about why, despite having an advantage over Trump in the economy with voters, the former president is failing in recent polls, pointing out that Trump receives regular advice from a wide range of competent individuals.
Rove replied:
Well, first of all, he does listen to a lot of people, but the first he listens to is the inner voice, and we see it in these rallies, which are a particularly undisciplined form of communications. Look, think about it, two-thirds of the American people think we’re going in the wrong direction.
He leads on the issue of who’s better on the economy, who’s better on inflation, who’s better on migration. That’s all all good numbers for him. and yet this race today he’s behind and why is he behind? Because he is making this race about things other than the three big issues in this campaign – the economy, inflation, and immigration.
Rove concluded Trump is “fundamentally undisciplined.”
