Republican strategist Karl Rove bashed Mitt Romney's speech attacking Republican front-runner Donald Trump, telling a Michigan radio station that "it was the wrong message from the wrong messenger on the wrong day."
Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential candidate, slammed Trump last Thursday as a "fraud" who was playing the American electorate for "suckers."
The speech was on the day of the Republican debate in Detroit. Trump won Michigan's GOP primary on Tuesday.
"I thought the speech was good, but not great," Rove told
"Michigan's Big Show" in Lansing on Tuesday,
BuzzFeed News reports. "It gave Trump a chance to come back and remind his supporters of the thing that motivates them, which is Romney lost."
Trump slammed Romney as a "failed candidate" who should have defeated President Barack Obama.
"With Donald Trump supporters, this sense of aggrievement that we could have won — which a lot of Republicans feel, me included, and it would have much better for the country if we had won — it is an important touch point for his supporters," Rove said.
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