Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz explained Thursday how the 2024 presidential election reminds him “so much of 2016” as he argued why Donald Trump has the “momentum” over Kamala Harris.
“I think there are a lot of similarities between this campaign and that campaign right now. The divisions in the country were great at the time, people didn’t think Trump had a chance,” Luntz told CNN’s Sara Sidner.
“He’s winning and winning, the momentum.”
Sidner noted earlier in the segment that the Republican pollster has argued that President Joe Biden “may have reduced” the vice president’s chances of winning after his “garbage” comment earlier this week.
“But she also came out and said, ‘No, no, no. I’m going to give people a seat at the table and not call them the enemy within,” Sidner said, referring to the former president’s alarmist rhetoric about political enemies.
“Why are you saying this could be the big problem?”
Luntz later said he doesn’t know who will win the election, adding that “nobody” should call it because it’s “way too close to call.”
“However, the momentum is clearly, from what I see and hear, in his favor,” he said of Trump.
“And so every word, every sentence, every misstep, every blunder matters as the last remaining persuasives make their decision.”
Luntz stated that he “doesn’t believe in the undecided anymore” before asking a rhetorical question.
‘Are you actually going to vote if you don’t like either candidate? Because that’s the vast majority of people who can be persuaded,” Luntz said.
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He continued: “People who don’t like Trump’s attitude, don’t like his personality, people who are still not sure what Harris will do on the first day, the first week, the first month, the first year.”