A Republican political strategist and Fox News contributor noted during a segment on Tuesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is not polling as well as Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden did against former President Donald Trump.

Karl Rove, an adviser to then-President George W. Bush, cautioned that the optimism surrounding Harris’s campaign might be misplaced, pointing out that she is currently polling worse than Biden did at this point in 2020 and Clinton did in 2016.

Rove’s remarks followed anchor Bret Baier’s repeat of one Democratic strategist’s warning that Harris’s current strategy of falling silent on policy and avoiding the media is “borne of conceit and foolhardiness.” He asked: “What do you make of that?”

Rove responded: “She [Harris] needs to be more specific. Let’s not be critical of her by saying she has to have a Democrat Congress and a Democrat Senate in order to get these things done. Because the same can be said for Donald Trump; he has to have a Republican Senate and a Republican House to get everything done. But people want to know where you’re coming from, and they want to know enough about the specifics to get their hands around it.”

“But the other point about polling, I want to, if possible, let’s talk about that a little bit because I think let’s put this in perspective. On this day in 2020, Joe Biden was up 7.1% above Donald Trump in the RealClearPolitics average,” Rove continued.

“And at this point in 2016, Hillary Clinton was up 6.3. And as you remember, the election came down to a handful of votes in a handful of states. And today, in the RealClearPolitics average, Harris is up over Trump by 1.5 in the RCP average and 3.5 in the 538.com,” he added.

“So this, you know, she’s ahead in both averages, but she’s nowhere near ahead by the numbers that both Biden and Clinton were in,” he continued. “And as we know, Clinton lost and Biden won by 42,000 votes in three states. To complicate it further, these are national numbers we’re talking about, and we’ve got a number of polls, 8 to 10 polls that make up these averages, but how is she doing and how is he doing in the battleground states, the 6 or 7 battleground states?

“We have nowhere near, we have a few polls in several states, but we certainly don’t have 6 or 7 or 8 polls that would give us an average and therefore give us a better idea of where they actually are,” Rove added.