Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 191
Blue Wave Update
The Washington Post covered a focus group run by Frank Luntz:
“Over three hours in Alexandria, Luntz lobbed dozens of Trump-seeking missiles. All 29 in the group had voted for Mitt Romney in 2012. All either supported Trump, or had supported him earlier in the year. To Luntz’s amazement, hearing negative information about the candidate made the voters, only a few of whom gave their full names to the press, hug the candidate tighter.”
“Donald Trump’s feud with GOP pollster Frank Luntz escalated Monday – with Trump calling on Fox News to fire Luntz from overseeing its post-debate focus groups, and Luntz launching a profanity-laden tirade to describe the real estate showman turned renegade presidential candidate,” Politico reports.
Trump also accused Luntz “of harboring a long-held vendetta because Trump refused to do business with Luntz’s polling firm.”
“Monday’s war of words, another chapter in a series of Trump vs. Luntz moments, was touched off when Politico asked Luntz about private comments that seem to call into question his objectivity as the man who facilitates the focus groups that appear on Fox News.”
Taegan Goddard
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire -- which for more than two decades has been one of the nation's most influential political news sites.
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