Karl Rove Surprisingly Defends 'Knucklehead' Tim Walz on Fox News

Karl Rove offered Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz some interview tips during a segment on Fox News Channel — and made a surprising case for the Minnesota governor and his running mate, Vice President Kamala Harris, on process.

During Friday’s segment, Fox News anchor John Roberts played a clip of ABC’s Michael Strahan asking Walz what he would say to people who don’t trust the governor of Minnesota, given his past misstatements .

Walz responded: “I know things change in a political environment. But I think what they see is that if they want to compare it to talking about immigration policy or seeing the things that Donald Trump would say, I think there’s a big difference than missing a date when you’re there and again making something up for political reasons. . .”

After the clip, Roberts mocked the Minnesota governor for calling himself an “idiot.” But instead of joining him, Rove offered a better answer to the question — and a defense of Walz.

“If he just said, ‘Look, I said it wrong and I apologize for that. I get it – I was informed by my experiences, but yes, I messed up dates and put myself in places I wasn’t, but it wasn’t intentional and I wasn’t trying to deceive. You know, I’m proud of my record as a member of Congress, as governor of an important state. But yes, did I say something wrong? You bet. And for that I’m sorry,’” Rove said.

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He also called Walz a “very fun candidate” and advised him: “Move forward. People forgive, but you have to admit a problem.”

Earlier in the segment, he also offered a better answer than Walz on the question of why Harris did not enact her campaign policy proposals during her time in the White House serving in President Joe Biden’s administration.

Walz’s response centered on Trump overturning a bipartisan immigration law, but Rove thought he should have defended his running mate before attacking his opponent.

“There’s a response that says, ‘Look, she was the vice president. Times change and four years ago she and President Biden were trying to help the country recover from COVID. That’s been done, so what’s the next chapter we need to work on? This is why we want to do x, y, and z.’”