Renowned pollster Frank Luntz revealed the exact moment Kamala Harris lost herself in the election.
During a CNN interview Wednesday, Luntz, also known as “The Nostradamus of pollsters,” said the Democratic nominee was doing well in the polls until she “froze” after turning her attention to Donald Trump.
“She had the best 60 days of any presidential candidate in modern history,” Luntz said.
“And then she became anti-Trump and focused on him and said, ‘Don’t vote for me, vote against him.’ Then everything froze.’
Luntz added that Trump is “defined” because he “doesn’t win” and “doesn’t lose” in the election, while his opponent is “less well defined.”
Pollster Frank Luntz said Kamala Harris was doing well in the election until she turned all her attention to her opponent Donald Trump.
Luntz said Trump is “defined” because he “doesn’t win” and “doesn’t lose” in the election, while his opponent is “less well defined.” (Image: Harris speaking at the Naval Observatory on Wednesday)
“And if she continues to define this race solely as ‘votes against Trump,’ she will stay where she is and she may lose,” Luntz added.
The next day, Luntz told NewsNation that the winner will most likely be determined by uncommitted voters.
“I think Trump has the advantage right now, in terms of engagement.
“In terms of the ceiling of potential votes, Harris has the advantage, which is why I stay away from all projections. I don’t know,” he said, adding that the election is “not a game anymore.”
A new poll showed Harris lagging behind the way Joe Biden performed in 2020.
A Saturday New York Times/Siena College poll thought so overall Harris is ahead of Trump 66 percent to 27 percent among likely voters in New York City.
But that’s 11 points behind President Biden, who earned 76 percent of the vote in New York, compared to Trump’s 23 percent in the last presidential election.
With just eight days until the 2024 election, Harris admitted she’s not good at thinking as she followed CNN’s town hall last week, where she joined Anderson Cooper in the swing state of Pennsylvania.
Retailer Joe Donahue asked the vice president “what weaknesses do you bring to the table and how do you plan to overcome them?” during the live event on Wednesday.
Harris, 60, responded that she “sometimes doesn’t have the answer quickly” about “a specific policy issue” because she likes to “research” it first.
‘I want to study it. I’m a bit of a nerd sometimes, I have to admit,” Harris said.
“Some might call that a weakness, especially if you’re in a job interview or just asked a certain question and you’re expected to have the right answer right away. But that’s how I work.’
Despite launching her presidential campaign on an optimistic note, Harris has lately attacked her Republican opponent, including labeling him a “fascist” and comparing him to Hitler.
She unleashed the scathing attack on Trump last week when she spoke outside her home near the US Naval Observatory.
During her speech, the vice president quoted an interview Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly gave to the New York Times in which he said Trump often spoke admirably about Hitler when he was in the White House.
Despite launching her presidential campaign on an optimistic note, Harris has recently attacked her Republican opponent, including labeling him a “fascist” and comparing him to Hitler.
“It is deeply disturbing and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump is invoking Adolf Hitler – the man responsible for the deaths of six million Jews,” Harris said.
“Donald Trump is becoming increasingly unhinged and unstable, and in a second term people like John Kelly would no longer be there to serve as a guard against his tendencies and his actions.
“So the bottom line is we know what Donald Trump wants. He wants unchecked power. In thirteen days the question will be: What do the American people want?’
“This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who have worked side by side with him in the Oval Office, in the Situation Room, and from the words of John Kelly Clearly Donald Trump is someone I quote who certainly falls within the general definition of a fascist,” Harris added.
Trump’s comments have been reported before, but mostly by anonymous sources, given that protection, so the former president did not focus on them.
But now Kelly, who served on Trump’s staff from 2017 to 2019, made his concerns public.
Following Harris’ claim that Trump wanted to govern as a “fascist,” New York Mayor Eric Adams sharply criticized her for that response and asked her to tone it down. (Image: Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday)
He told the New York Times that Trump meets the “definition of fascist” and claimed the former president has no understanding of American history or the Constitution.
Kelly, 74, claimed that Trump once said that “Hitler did some good things” and praised the Nazi dictator for “rebuilding the economy.”
Kelly also revealed that Trump said he wanted his staff to be more like “German generals in World War II” because they were “completely loyal” to Hitler.
Following Harris’ claim that Trump wanted to govern as a “fascist,” New York Mayor Eric Adams sharply criticized her for that response at a press conference on Saturday.
“I have had these comments thrown at me from a number of political leaders in the city; my answer is ‘No,'” Adams said.
He denounced comparisons of Trump to Adolf Hitler and asked Harris to tone it down.
‘I know what Hitler did, and I know what a fascist regime looks like. “I think, as I have called for again and again, that at the level of conversation we can all lower the temperature,” he added.
Lately, concerns have arisen among Democrats, who are now wondering whether Harris has completely let her momentum in the 2024 race slip away.
A killer’s string of bad PR for the Harris campaign this week included continued declines in the polls, a widely panned CNN town hall, Donald Trump beating her to the punch with Joe Rogan and even fellow Democrats decrying her rhetoric .
After an exclusive town hall with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in the swing state of Pennsylvania, left-wing panelists ripped Harris after she failed to provide clear answers on both domestic and foreign policy, and the meandering trademarks
According to Real Clear Politics, Harris now trails Trump in the polling average in the crucial swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Fear now grips Harris’ campaign and the vibes are fading as prominent Democratic lawmakers, as well as the liberal media, have been forced to publicly acknowledge that the campaign is teetering at the final hurdle.
One Democratic strategist admitted to The Hill: “Yes, it’s close, but are things going our way? No. And no one wants to admit that openly. Can we still win? Maybe. Should anyone be even slightly optimistic at this point? No.’
While some noted that Harris is taking risks by teaming up with Liz Cheney and holding rallies in red Texas in the final weeks of the campaign, another strategist said bluntly, “If this is an atmosphere election, the current atmosphere is not great.” ‘