Karl Rove Predicts Big Beautiful Bill Will Have ‘Huge Impact’ on 2026 Midterms: ‘Republicans Had Better Go on Offense’

Legendary GOP operative and Fox News contributor Karl Rove predicted that President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill would have a “huge impact” on the 2026 midterms during a segment on Friday, just hours before the legislation was expected to pass the House of Representatives.

After anchor Aishah Hasnie observed that 59% of Americans have a negative view of the bill, Rove called passing it an “extraordinary achievement,” but argued that “there are three other steps that need to be taken.”

“First of all, the president needs to lead the effort to go out and explain it,” submitted Rove, who also said that Republicans ought to “go on offense,” as well as under-promise and over-deliver when it comes to the bill.

After fielding a follow-up on the legislation’s impact on the 2026 midterms, Rove replied:

I think it’ll have a huge impact on 2026, because remember, as these changes, particularly the Medicaid changes come into effect, they’re going to have-, people are going to be losing their coverage. The able-bodied, think about it, there was an interesting study done of able-bodied people on Medicaid, and that you know what their number one activity was if they weren’t working? It was watching television, and number two was playing online games.

And so we are gonna-, the Republicans had better go on the offense and say, “We are doing what you told us to do, which is to make certain that this program served the vulnerable among us.” Medicaid was meant for poor seniors, for children in poor families, and for the disabled, and we should not be paying for health care for people who are able-bodied, and can work, and are refusing to work. This is why they got to go on the offense. But yeah, it’s going to be a big impact. And the the work is just beginning. There’s going to be always a tendency to say, “We got the bill passed, oh let’s all take the time off and God, we got it done,” uh-uh, that’s the requirement that you then go to work.

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