Former Bush adviser Karl Rove bashed Trump supporters in his latest screed in the Wall Street Journal.
He also warned that Trump would get creamed by Hillary Clinton.
Trump currently leads the field of Republicans running for president.
Trump beat Hillary Clinton by 5 points in the latest Huffington Post poll.
The Huffington Post reported:
Karl Rove, who served as an adviser to former President George W. Bush, warned Republicans that nominating Donald Trump could be a death wish for the party.
In a Wall Street Journal column published Friday, Rove acknowledged Trump’s consistently strong standing among Republicans in the polls, and the impressively high percentage of backers — 46 percent, according to a recent Quinnipiac poll — who say they won’t stray from Trump before the primaries.
Hitting Trump for his antics — citing the Republican presidential candidate’s beef with Fox News host Megyn Kelly and insults of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) for being captured in Vietnam — Rove lamented that there’s seemingly no line Trump can cross to lose the backing of his loyal supporters, who “eat up stuff like that.”
But in a matchup against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the general election, Rove wrote, Trump would get “creamed.” He called Trump a “dream candidate” for the Democratic Party.
“Although Mr. Trump’s antics may not drive away his current supporters, they make him unlikely to win the White House,” he wrote.
