Republican pollster Frank Luntz in a latest interview stated Vice President Harris might come up quick in November, suggesting her momentum “froze” when she went ‘anti-Trump.”
Luntz stated Harris’s finest stretch got here when she was making the case for herself on why she ought to be elected commander-in-chief. That progress, in his view, has halted together with her expanded concentrate on attacking former President Trump.
“What’s interesting is that with Harris focused on why she should be elected president, that’s when her numbers grew,” the pollster stated on CNN’s “This Morning.”
“She’s had the best 60 days of any presidential candidate in modern history and then the moment that she turned anti-Trump and focused on him and said, ‘Don’t vote for me vote against him,'” he instructed host Kasie Hunt, including, “That’s when everything froze.”
The momentum, Luntz continued, is now heading towards Trump.
Whereas many Democrats nonetheless consider Harris will ship in lower than two weeks, some inside the social gathering concern the 2024 contest is slipping away.
“Everyone keeps saying, ‘It’s close.’ Yes, it’s close, but are things trending our way? No. And no one wants to openly admit that,” one Democratic strategist instructed The Hill. “Could we still win? Maybe. Should anyone be even slightly optimistic right now? No.”
Within the interview Tuesday, Luntz signaled that Trump shouldn’t be gaining or dropping.
“And the fact is, Donald Trump is defined, he’s not gaining he’s not losing he is who he is, his vote is where it is,” Luntz stated Wednesday morning. “She is less well-defined and if she continues just to define this race as vote against Trump, she’s going to stay where she is now. And she may lose.”
The Hill/Choice Desk HQ’s nationwide polling index reveals Harris main Trump by simply 1 level — 48.6 % to 47.6 %.
