Even though Election Day remains almost three months away, a noted Republican pollster is warning that failed one-term former president Donald Trump is on the verge of handing the 2024 race for the White House to Vice President Kamala Harris with his relentless hostility and negativity.
GOP polling guru Frank Luntz was a guest on CNN, and the host asked him about the rallies being conducted by Harris.
“Is it fair to say, Frank, in your opinion, that this enthusiasm that we’ve seen anecdotally and in the crowds and donations is translating into actual support?”
Luntz replied, “It’s more than fair. It’s accurate that the change over the last 17 days has been significant. It’s meaningful and measurable, and it’s being led by younger women who had opted out of this campaign.”
“Paycheck-to-paycheck voters,” Luntz added, often “see in her campaign someone they can relate to.”
Since President Joe Biden dropped out of the race, Luntz noted, Trump hasn’t been the same.
“He’s been very negative and very hostile and clearly he’s the kind of lost his balance. He absolutely emerged from the convention with a clear and convincing lead but what has happened, he stopped talking about immigration. He stopped talking about inflation. And instead he has been so personal with his attacks that voters are starting to recoil.”
The upcoming Democratic National Convention will give Harris yet another polling bump, Luntz predicted.
“People like her more than they like him,” he added. “If he’s watching this right now, his head is exploding and that’s part of the problem.”
If Harris continues to build on the polling lead she’s built over the past couple of weeks, Trump is in very big trouble, and all of the major battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania — will be locked down by Democrats when Labor Day rolls around next month.
