In a morning appearance on Fox News, he says nothing of his outburst. Rove mum on election call uproar

Returning to Fox News on Wednesday morning, conservative strategist Karl Rove made no mention of how he repeatedly questioned the network while on air for calling Ohio for President Barack Obama, but he did say GOP-ers needed to expand their base.

“If we’re going to win in the future, Republicans need to do better among Latinos, and they need to do better among women — particularly single women,” Rove, a former President George W. Bush senior adviser and Fox analyst, said on Fox. “The Republican Party had better pay attention to the Latino vote.”


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Rove wasn’t asked about his comments on election night that Fox should not have called Ohio as early as it did, even though many media outlets had done so as well. And Obama ended up carrying the swing state in any event.

So why did Mitt Romney lose to Obama?

“[Voters] had disqualified him in many people’s minds as being a rich guy who didn’t care about them,” Rove said.

But Rove said that Republicans must do a better job at making their economic case.

“For the foreseeable future, anemic growth and high unemployment will be the case. In the midterm, we’re going to have a — in the coming years, we’ll have a fiscal crisis,” Rove said. “The amount of debt that we’re growing is unsustainable. And we need to make a better, stronger case on the economy and on the necessary reforms to put our fiscal house in order.”