Frank Luntz Focus Group of Trump Voters Shocks Washington
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Frank Luntz lives in Los Angeles. Frank Luntz powwows with Hollywood people, does work for them, and then travels back and forth to Washington, works for political people. He does focus groups and other kinds of consumer audience research.
He invited some people to his house. He invited Republicans and Democrats. Actually, he invited Republican congressmen to his House in LA and then invited a bunch of Hollywood leftists to the same get-together. It was Luntz trying to reach across the aisle. It was Luntz trying to put together the Republicans with the Democrats.
I think, Scalise was there, and Scalise got ripped to shreds by the Hollywood left, but reportedly continued to smile and shake hands and didn’t react to it. Another focus group that Luntz did, CBS This Morning, they played a portion of Luntz talking with a focus group of Trump voters. And Luntz says, “We’re now in the middle of June. I want you to give me one word or phrase to describe Donald Trump.
Now that we have some idea of who he is, give me a word or phrase to describe Donald Trump.”
OICE: I’d say honest.
VOICE: Determined.
VOICE: Effective.
VOICE: True.
VOICE: Strong.
VOICE: Productive.
VOICE: Tough SOB.
VOICE: Very authentic.
RUSH: Hot damn, Mabel, did you hear that? I didn’t hear one negative word about Trump. Did you hear what these people said? Honest, determined, effective, true, strong, productive, tough SOB, very authentic. And it turns out that they love Trump’s tweets! They love it, even when Luntz tries to talk ’em out of it.
You know, my thing is, I’m so tired of people beating on Donald Trump. Donald Trump made us promises, he kept them, and that’s a type of new leadership that we need.
LUNTZ: And what has he accomplished?
VOICE: What has he accomplished? He’s done more in the last hundred days than President Obama done in the last eight years.
RUSH: Now, what you didn’t see is when Luntz asked them how many people of you in this room love the tweeting, every hand went up, every hand. Now, I don’t know where Luntz falls in all this, but I’ll tell you most of the inside-the-Beltway establishment types would just blanch when they heard this last guy say, “What’s he accomplished? He’s done more in the last hundred days than Obama’s done in the last eight years.”
They think they have Trump paralyzed. They think they have Trump stopped. They believe Trump isn’t able to do anything because they have him so occupied with Comey and the Russians and the special counsel and the collusion and the obstruction of justice. They think — and I’m talking about the media — they think they have Trump stymied. And yet Trump — look at some of the things.
And yet Trump just keeps chugging along despite what they’re doing. And they’re not even seeing it, which is why Katrina vanden Heuvel is mad. Again, leftist, socialist, communist publisher of The Nation, and she today in the Washington Post is excoriating the media for malpractice by being focused on this nothing burger of collusion with the Russians while Trump is running rings around everybody.
And the media’s going, “What? What? What?” ‘Cause they think they’ve got Trump stopped. They think they’ve got him totally distracted. So when they hear things like this in this focus group, I’m telling you they are shell-shocked. They also think, the people in the focus group, they think that the Russia investigation is a huge waste of time. They think the entire programming of the American media is a huge waste of time. Luntz asked them, “Did the Russians intervene in this election?”
VOICE: No. I mean, they didn’t get into the voting machines and change votes. It wouldn’t have made any difference one way or the other.
LUNTZ: What surprised me the most about that segment is when we showed Trump pushing aside the European leaders at that meeting, and they applauded him. They loved it! Because to them it was the White House, it was the president asserting his rightful role as leader of the free world. And I’m thinking, “Oh, my God! (snickers) This is one of the most embarrassing moments.” They don’t see it that way. They love it and they want him to keep doing it.
Trump has not masked who he is. Trump has not behaved like the Democrats do. He does not go out and camouflage. He doesn’t present a side of him that isn’t real. He doesn’t lie to people about what he believes. Although he has broken a serious promise, and that’s the DREAMers. And he’s got some immigration people that voted for him that are a little angry about that. That must be mentioned. But other than that, Trump voters know Trump is who he is. He doesn’t act, he doesn’t put on a front, he doesn’t make up things — as opposed to the Democrats who can’t be honest about who they are.
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