Polling guru Frank Luntz
thinks that RFK Jr.’s decision
to drop out of the presidential race and endorse Donald Trump could
have big implications for the former president’s chances—and could be
the difference in the key battleground states that will decide the election.
“It’s probably worth about 1 percent for Trump and that 1
percent could be everything if it’s in the swing states,” Luntz said
during his Friday appearance on NewsNation’s “On Balance” with Leland
Vittert.
“In the end, the reason why Kennedy was drawing 10, 12, even as high as 14 percent is because he was taking votes away from Joe Biden,”
he continued. “Joe Biden’s gone. Kamala Harris has replaced him, and
[Kennedy’s] vote collapsed down to about 4 or 5 percent and what’s left
is a Trump vote.”
“Some of them are simply not going to
participate in November, roughly two to one, the ones who are remaining
will vote for Trump over Harris, and that’s worth a single percent, and a single percent can make the difference in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.” [Bolding mine.]
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As
we’ve been reporting, the mainstream media has been depicting Kamala
Harris’ rise after Joe Biden quit his reelection effort as a national
awakening, a rebirth for a failed candidate who now somehow is some sort
of Democratic messiah. Luntz sees the hypocrisy too:
“If
he [RFK Jr.] had endorsed Harris, I do think he would be regarded as a
hero but because he endorsed Trump, the people who are communicating
that are not giving him the credit that he deserves, and I think we have
to be careful in the last 73 days of this election campaign to
understand the motivations of the people providing us information like
what I’m doing right now, because I am dedicated to getting this
election correct,” he said.
Luntz has some advice for the former president, however, if he wants to win it all—focus on the issues:
If it is about attributes, if he continues to attack
Harris and the way that he is done, and he gets away from inflation,
which is really affordability, stops talking about paycheck-to-paycheck
voters, which is better than working class or middle class, the language
does matter here, if he does that, he is in the driver’s seat.
We
won’t know if he’s right until the Fat Lady sings in November, but two
things are clearly evident: RFK Jr.’s decision to go with Trump and dump
the duplicitous Democrat party that’s been at the heart of his family’s
history will have a profound effect on this election, and 2) the media
hates this move with every fiber of their corrupt being and will
continue to everything in their power to undermine the GOP and prop up
the mendacious socialist campaign of Kamala Harris. American voters need
to see through this ruse.
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