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Pollster and communications strategist Frank Luntz tells CNN’s Audie Cornish that President Donald Trump’s midterm strategy is “dangerous” for GOP chances of controlling Congress.
Trump’s team is planning an aggressive campaign schedule for Trump and Vice President JD Vance in October in both battleground and deep-red states alike, multiple officials told CNN — as advisers believe their only hope at holding ground is increasing turnout, and the president can help with that.
Also, CNN's Jake Tapper and Manu Raju detail the midterm elections landscape with their panels of political pundits on State of the Union and Inside Politics.
0:00 Pollster Frank Luntz on the "energy challenge" for the GOP heading into midterm elections
3:00 Which voting groups is Trump struggling with?
5:27 Can the GOP overcome Trump's record-low approval ratings?
9:26 How big of a drag is Trump on GOP candidates?
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<br>Over the last three decades, Luntz has used focus groups to craft the GOP rhetoric that would sell best. He used these groups to test rhetoric that would convince the easily suggestible populace, which for him meant rhetoric that would sanitize heinous and cruel Republican Party policies and would demonize Democratic Party benign and compassionate policies. He coined euphemisms and evasions for climate change; he came up with “government takeover” and “death tax;” and so much more. He unashamedly called the adjective “Orwellian” a term of praise and a principle of effective political rhetoric for the GOP.
<br>Asking Frank Luntz to discuss or to conduct a focus group on contemporary politics is tantamount to having asked Joseph Goebbels to discuss and to conduct a focus group on German politics in 1940. Frank Luntz is the Republican Party’s Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda (Realm-minister of Popular-clarification and Propaganda).
<br>No legitimate news network should give him a platform, and any news network that gives him a platform should be pilloried and excoriated.