How Swing Voters Feel About Vice President Kamala Harris: Top Pollster Explains

3 months ago

Pollster Frank Luntz joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss how swing voters feel about Vice President Kamala Harris.

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00:00And what do swing voters think aside from the historic numbers?

00:05She's also an apparatus of President Biden.

00:08So what are they thinking as her being the likely nominee?

00:12Well, swing voters are swing voters because they don't have

00:16an ideology.

00:17They look at the character traits and the attributes.

00:20They're simply not wedded to the Republican position or the

00:22Democratic position.

00:23That's first.

00:25Second is that they tend to be double haters, which is that

00:28they didn't like Joe Biden and they didn't like Donald Trump.

00:31She's got, she doesn't have the baggage of Biden's age and

00:34that's significant because that was the number one reason why

00:38these double haters did not like Joe Biden.

00:40But she does have the baggage of the Biden administration,

00:44the rate of inflation, the lack of affordability, the chaos

00:48at the border.

00:50But all this legislation that he did pass, the Inflation

00:54Reduction Act, the CHIPS Act, the Infrastructure Act,

00:58so we're only into it 72 hours or 48 hours.

01:04We're just starting in this process.

01:07And the truth is, we don't know the truth.

01:11We don't know how people are going to break.

01:15I will figure this out very quickly, but I'm not going to

01:19rush to judgment because these swing voters themselves are

01:23not rushing to judgment.

01:25Frankly, it's dangerous to make any conclusion until after

01:28the Democratic Convention because that speech will be

01:32watched by tens of millions of people, will be seen in parts

01:36by, I don't know, 50 million voters, 75 million, and it's

01:42only after that speech that we get a reset of this election.

01:46And from that point on, it's going to feel like World War

01:49One.

01:51This is going to be trench warfare with all these key

01:54states within a percent or two.

01:57Every word, every phrase, every statement will be twisted and

02:01turned and taken out of context.

02:04And the one thing that you haven't asked me is what is the

02:07impact of this on our democracy?

02:11And my response would be,

02:13the good news, more people are going to be involved,

02:16more people are going to be energized, more people are

02:18going to be participatory.

02:20The bad news is that from the campaigns itself,

02:23I think we're going to be doing more damage to the credibility

02:27and the

02:28the open-mindedness of the country as we tear each other

02:33apart.

02:36I want to talk-

02:38But it's really bad when you participate in such a negative

02:41way.

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