GOP strategist Karl Rove on Sunday slammed Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s performance at last week’s debate as “over-the-top” and “robotic.”
Rove made the comments on WABC 770 talk radio show The Cats Roundtable while assessing each 2024 candidate’s debate performance, telling host John Catsimatidis that “on points had a good evening and on substance had a bad evening.” Ramaswamy, who has seen a steady rise in polling in recent months, was a prime target of the night.
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“Representative of that was his comment that everybody else was bought and paid for, which I thought was so over-the-top that it was representative of his mindset,” Rove, who served as former President George W. Bush’s chief of staff, said, arguing Ramaswamy views himself as “the only perfect person on the stage.”
“He got whacked around,” he continued. “He got whacked around on flip-flopping on things. He got whacked around on comments that we ought to get out of Ukraine because we’re forcing Russia to ally itself with China.”
Rove said Ramaswamy was “robotic” and that former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie “got off one of the better lines of the night that [Ramaswamy] sounds like ChatGPT.”
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Ramaswamy sparred with a number of his establishment competitors on stage last Wednesday, including former Vice President Mike Pence, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and Christie.
Pence had the most speaking time of the night, followed closely by Ramaswamy.
