Rove on if It’s ‘Brotherly Love’ Between Romney and Trump: ‘I Wouldn’t Go that Far’

‘I suspect he also did something that Orrin Hatch wanted him to do, to endorse Mitt Romney’

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SCOTT: "A surprising endorsement by President Trump who is now supporting Mitt Romney in his Senate bid in Utah. The former Massachusetts governor has been a frequent and harsh critic of Mr. Trump, but you wouldn’t know it from the president’s tweet saying, quote, 'Mitt Romney has announced he is running for the Senate from the wonderful state of Utah. He will make a great senator and worthy successor to @OrrinHatch, and has my full endorsement! Romney tweets back: 'Thank you Mr. President. I hope that over the course of the campaign I also earn the support and endorsement of the people of Utah.' Will this bromance last? Let’s bring in Karl Rove, former senior adviser and deputy chief of staff to George W. Bush, also a Fox News contributor. You know, Karl, that politics can make strange bedfellows. What is it about Mitt Romney and President Trump? Is it -- is it all brotherly love between them now?"
ROVE: "Well, I wouldn’t go that far, but both of the men got -- got something out of this exchange. President Trump looked big and presidential. I suspect he also did something that Orrin Hatch wanted him to do, which was to endorse Mitt Romney. And Mitt Romney got a chance to say, thank you, Mr. President, and then immediately you’ll notice in his -- in his -- in his tweet immediately turned the focus back to Utah. He said I hope to earn the support of the people of Utah. Mitt Romney is in his initial stage of the campaign completely focused on now I’ll be a senator and go to Washington do big things, but I’m going to go to Washington and represent the people of Utah. You know, he went to school there, he has had longstanding ties there, family members are there. He has lived there the last several years. He was deeply involved in rescuing the winter Olympics in Utah in 2002. But he is very careful to -- to make certain that people in Utah recognize that he knows he got to -- he got earn their respect and their support in shoe leather door-to-door, person to person, meeting to meeting, and not be a big dog, who was the former governor of Massachusetts and former presidential candidate."

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