Former White House deputy chief of staff Karl Rove said Thursday that the Biden administration and Democrats need a reality check about the president’s role in the midterm elections this past month.

Rove rejected the idea that Biden and his agenda were the primary reasons Democrats fared better than anticipated in the midterms, citing a memo from White House senior adviser Mike Donilon, stating the president was enjoying a “strong jolt of momentum.”

Donilon claimed the midterm success was because of Biden’s “approval rating on the upswing, a resilient economic climate, and strong support for the President’s agenda.”

“There are problems with the narrative,” Rove wrote in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal. “The midterms had more to do with Republican missteps than with Biden administration successes.”