“I think they’re like a lot of people,” Rove said of the roughly 350 donors and other guests expected at the Texas conference he has organized.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/21/republican-2024-donors-00083670

Karl Rove on Trump-DeSantis feud: We learn a lot about candidates by 'how they trade blows'

Source: https://www.onnradio.com/2023/06/03/karl-rove-on-trump-desantis-feud-we-learn-a-lot-about-candidates-by-how-they-trade-blows/

Rove also thought ex-Vice President Mike Pence impresses some red staters as a “man of courage” during the attack on the Capitol.

Source: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/gop-strategist-karl-rove-praises-trump-rivals-haley-pence-desantis-at-ideas-fest/

Rove was widely regarded as a political star in the George W. Bush administration.

Source: https://gazette.com/news/us-world/karl-rove-bidens-2024-campaign-will-leave-no-strong-imprint/article_c2060b40-0812-586d-9a87-c73b9dd247cf.html

Rove, who has been warning Republicans that Trump can't win in 2024 if he is the GOP nominee for president, called out the former president for his "childish impulse to keep mementos from his time in the Oval Office, no matter what the law says."

Source: https://www.rawstory.com/trump-espionage-2661363083/

Trump also attacked DeSantis as “a globalist sellout and Paul Ryan and Karl Rove acolyte,” referring to the former Speaker, a relative moderate, and the well-known Republican strategist.

Source: https://www.onnradio.com/2023/07/08/the-memo-desantis-tries-to-shift-narrative-after-campaign-criticism/

Trump said the GOP was once "ruled by freaks, neocons, open-border zealots and fools," and promised the party was "never going back to the party of Paul Ryan, Karl Rove, and Jeb Bush."

Source: https://theweek.com/instant-opinion/1021574/4-lessons-from-cpac