Longtime Republican strategist Karl Rove criticized Beto O’Rourke as one of the Democratic Party’s “lesser lights,” after he said his fellow Democrats are lazy.

Rove joined Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom,” on Tuesday, bringing out his whiteboard to criticize the Texas Democrat. O'Rourke slammed Democratic leadership as "lazy” on a different broadcast over the weekend.

“I think our party unfortunately has gotten lazy and overly enamored of seven so-called battleground or 'blue wall' states to the detriment of Alabama and Mississippi and Texas and Louisiana,” O’Rourke said on MSNBC. “Those are our fellow Americans,........

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