WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Republican pollster Frank Luntz said Wednesday that Florida Sen. Marco Rubio would be leading Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton by eight points if he was the Republican presidential nominee.
In addition, he told Yahoo Global News anchor Katie Couric that Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who battled for the GOP nomination during the primary season, would be besting Clinton by 12 points. He said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who also fought hard against Trump but ultimately endorsed him, would be “dead even” with the former secretary of state right now.
Luntz went on to say he fears the Republican Party nominated the one candidate who just cannot win against Clinton, who, similarly to the billionaire businessman, is burdened with historically high unfavorability numbers.
“It is possible that the Republicans nominated the one candidate who accurately captured the mood of more than half of America, but could not translate that to a vote to himself on Election Day,” he told Couric.
At another point in their wide-ranging discussion, Luntz charged that Trump’s entire presidential operation is “the worst campaign that I have ever seen in my professional life,” noting the myriad topics — private email server, Benghazi, WikiLeaks revelations — Trump could focus on instead of tweeting, as he often does, about issues that are distractions from the subjects at hand. ”Break his fingers, take the iPhone away,” the pollster joked about Trump’s hyperactive Twitter account.
Luntz wondered why Trump hasn’t been a better messenger when it comes to the issues brought to light by the Clinton campaign emails stolen by WikiLeaks.
“Every day, there’s another batch of emails, and every day, we learn more about what she has done,” he said. “No one knows about it, because he speaks so loudly that all the cameras are on him, removing the oxygen in the room that should also be about her.”
“It’s not what you say, it’s what people hear,” he continued. “It’s not how loudly you speak — and he speaks way too loudly — but what people learn from what you say, and people don’t learn anything from Donald Trump.”
The conservative consultant tested that theory, he told Couric, when he presented a series of Clinton-focused news reports, which were mostly about her emails, to a group of people unsure of who they support. He said “it changed an entire room of undecided voters.” But then he shared Trump’s own responses to those reports and “they all went back to being undecided,” he said.
“Not only did he not win them over,” Luntz observed, “he actually turned them off because his language is wrong; his presentation is wrong.”
yamit82 Said:
I thought that was just the West Coast way of eating Cheesies.. laced with cocaine of course.
Bear Klein Said:
No one is going to forget that the MSM are total liars worse that even in Stalinist times. ALL OF THEM.
And everyone now knows who the puppet-masters are, we can see Zuckerberg handing in the names of dissidents to the Stasi 2.0, and Google censoring or results like we were in China, and Reptillary collapsing like a sack of potatoes when the MSM says she had a “wobbly moment” and debate “moderators debating against Trump, rigging the debate, giving questions in advance to Hillary .
We know the MSN is corrupted to the core by the Globalists. What has been seen cannot be unseen. A new political movement will start with or without Trump. It’s not going to be repression and lies and exploitation and jackboots and killing us off as usual.
The old establishment GOP is done!
Jim Said:
And if she didn’t have the Globalist MSM pimping and lying for her and if she didn’t have the entire JUSTICE system corrupted including the DoD, the DHS, the CIA, the Attorney General Loretta Lynch AND the FBI she would lose 99.999 to .001 AND be in prison.
Lies lies and more lies
And after that lies
The focus groups are rigged.
The MSM is rigged. The CNN, the Clinton News Network is lugenpresse,
NBC ABC are Lugenpresse
Who gives a flying turnip, about what any of thee sick liars say or print or think?
The Globalist Republicans are dead with stakes in their black hearts and they are not coming back.
The people don’t want anymore the lying corrupt establishment GOP who are in the pockets of the Globalists.
No matter who wins the election they are finished!
Trump is just the messenger , he is the voice of the American people, the real people, not the MSM hypnotized zombies. The people’s voice is not ‘wrong’ because some rich guy wants it to be “wrong”. The people got the internet now, they know the MSM lies about EVERYTHING.
So take your fake focus groups and your stats and your pseudo-news and stick it up you lying behinds.
The people have seen behind the curtain now , the jig is up.The gravy train ride is over.
Rubio is the Globalist Insiders’ Water Boy, he is just another undead monster feasting on the lifeblood of the American people.
@ Michael:
Beck is insane
@ bernard ross:
Just consider the author of this article: “The Blaze”
UNSIGNED! We know its Glen Beck’s baby. Same GB that called Trump supporters “brown shirts”. Same GB that from day one was crying like a baby that lost its favorite toy. Same GB that declared that he will vote for Hillary. Same GB that with his daily rhetoric made up my mind to vote for Trump. Same GB – PSEUDOCONSERVATIVE
Lunz in the Tank for Rubio and never disclosed.
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/02/04/national-journal-luntz-fails-to-disclose-rubio-connection/
Rubio, Kasich and the RINO’s make an excellent team to prepare for defeats. They, after being soundly rejected by their own voter base organized to sabotage the people elected candidate. They arer out and talking about them is an academic… waste of valuable time.
Regrettably, such flotsam seems to be able to remain afloat and rowing down the proverbial creek.
Mr. Trump has shown grit to be able to negotiate the miasma that has invaded the US electoral system.
2016 IS the Flight93 Election:
http://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-flight-93-election/
Rubio or Kasich would be apologizing for every deplorable labeled bigotry. Trump’s “distractions” are ALL fights against the Political Correctness that IS destroying America in the Age of Obama.
The democrats would have run the same character destructive attack against any republican who won the nomination. They all would have been dirt after the election. The media only loves them when they are running in the primary because they want to slant the election. Look how much they loved mccain until he was the candidate and then they turned on him. Trump is the only republican nominee who was willing to fight back. hillary could only win this election on name calling and painting Trump as being a less desirable candidate then herself. With the media assistance she was able to do that. If it was really an election on issues and character she would lose by 65-35, or worse.
Since w’ere so obsessed with polls — I just vote my conscience (which says, “vote for Trump”), and let the chips fall where they may, you know? — Though I am urging progressives I know (which is nearly everyone I know) — all of whom dislike both candidates, just Trump more — to do a write-in vote for the independent candidate of my choice — he’s an older Black candidate — Sammy. He’s 18. He’s my favorite. He’s my cat.
But,let us go to the horses mouth and see where the Polls actually stand and why. I must add that I completely deplore and condemn the Russia bashing in this article but “”the pun’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king” – Hamlet, Shakespeare (sort of).
http://observer.com/2016/05/bill-clinton-declares-war-on-poland/
And, with that, I’m leaving first. Czech, please!
What Frank Luntz is doing is an academic exercise. Kaisch and Rubio had far less negatives and far more cross appeal to more demographics across the electorate.
The negatives would have have gotten higher once attacked by the Mainstream Media. As low as Trumps highly unlikely.
The Dems wanted to run against Trump, Cruz or Carson. They feared Rubio with his appeal to Latinos and being the fresh new face. Kasich had the broadest appeal across the electorate. Kasich polled the highest of any GOP candidate to win for months.
It does not matter as Trump won the nomination. What will happen to the GOP if Trump loses? No one know that answer to this. Obviously they are very divided.
Jonathan Tobin a conservative who edits Commentary and was neutral in this race writes an interesting article. This article is food for thought for conservatives or traditional GOP mostly.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/politics-ideas/campaigns-elections/donald-trump-explodes-the-gop-loser-myth/
since you asked, here is what I think:
Luntz parrots the establishment GOP narrative which their registered GOP voters already rejected in the primaries by a landslide. what Luntz does not mention is that Luntz and his GOP backers are doing everything they can to sabotage Trump so that they have a chance to run in 2020. It is only a Trump massive loss that can bring them back to a chance for the presidency. The GOP establishment and their donors prefer this becuase they can be more sure of passing the TPP, firing american workers, bringing in cheap competitive foreigners….. with hillary than with Trump. Donald would have been up 12 points if it was not for the backstabbing GOP who advise their constituents to dump donald but vote for them. LUntz named all the backstabbing culprits right out for all to see. Donald not only got all the GOP registered voters in the primary but he has drawn a large amount of independents like myself which none of those ideological whooores could ever have accomplished. In fact they have no problem languishing in a fake opposition because all their donors bills are passed in a cooperation between them and the paid dem whoores and president… like the TPP, Iran deal and amnesty…. all done in a betrayal of their constituents.
I will vote trump but i am not sure I will vote the downline gop, I am going to check to see if they support Trump if not fuggggedaboutit. From what I can see the GOP is irrelevant, a red herring, an offshoot of the dem party.