Karl Rove: Americans Don’t Support the Wall Because Trump Has ‘Failed to Talk About It’

Karl Rove offered an explanation Thursday as to why Americans are not on board with President Donald Trump‘s big beautiful wall on the southern border: he simply hasn’t hyped it up enough.

On Fox Business, the Republican strategist first called incoming Congressman Max Rose, a Democrat from Staten Island, “lunatic” for calling the idea of a border wall “medieval.” Rove claimed border states support the wall, in order to “regularize the transfer of people across the border.”

Marie Harf, a former Obama official turned Fox News contributor, pushed back: “The polling though nationwide is not with the wall.”

“A majority of people do not think that we should be building the wall, and certainly don’t think we should shut the government down for it,” she said. “The base does though, and that’s what Donald Trump is paying attention to.”

“But ask them about border security and you get a different answer,” Fox Business host Dagen McDowell interjected. Both Democrats and Republicans support border security.

Rove replied: “I think the reason that the wall doesn’t do well and border security does well is that the president has failed to talk about it.”

“Originally, remember the idea was we’re going to have a wall along the entire 1,954 mile border with Mexico?” Rove continued. “Well that is not needed. We really need 700, maybe 725, maybe 750 miles of some form of barrier. Some of them are barriers to vehicles, some are fences, some are walls, some of them are other forms of containment. But you know, there is no denying that we need to have border security and obstacles, barriers, walls, and fences are part of that.”

Watch above, via Fox News.