With the dust having settled from Tuesday night's first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, leading Republican Party pollster Frank Luntz late Wednesday predicted the former president is headed for defeat in November.
Appearing on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Luntz claimed Trump's performance during the debate looks to have dealt a death blow to his third run for the presidency.
As he explained to the host, “It was a pretty negative performance—pretty pessimistic, cynical, contemptuous and I think that this will cost him, yes."
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"I’m trying to decide if I want to go on record, and the answer is yes. I think that he loses because of this debate performance," he added.
Asked to elaborate, he continued, "This is not the worst debate performance I’ve seen in my career, but it’s very close to it,” Luntz continued, adding that Trump raving about “people eating dogs and cats," won't be forgotten anytime soon.
He also noted that Trump blew the opportunity to make the case for himself, noting he repeatedly missed "the opportunity to focus on inflation and affordability, and the complete inability to present his point of view without completely tearing into her, into Joe Biden, into whomever was in his sights.”
