Luntz On Trump’s Debate Performance: ‘I Saw The Destruction Of A Presidential Campaign'

CBS Washington DC ^ | 8/7/15 | CBS Washington DC

[jimbo123]

Republican strategist Frank Luntz came down hard on Donald Trump’s Republican presidential debate performance, calling it a “destruction of a candidacy.”

The CBS News contributor explained to “CBS This Morning” why Trump did not do well with the post-debate focus group he conducted.

“What do you say when you won’t guarantee to support the Republican nominee, when you call women some pretty horrific names, when you insult the moderator of the debate, when you don’t answer questions specifically, when you can’t even explain why you even went bankrupt. I have to tell you, this was an amazing debate performance. Not amazing because it was effective, amazing because I saw the destruction of a presidential campaign over those two hours. It really was remarkable,” Luntz said Friday.

[Hot Tabasco]

Trump is right, Luntz is, and always has been, nothing more than a highly compensated political analyst, aka, charlatan............

[Randy Larsen]

Wow, I didn’t know that!

If true, now I’m starting to understand how all these media a**holes work together to form opinions against the truly popular candidates.

Tea Party, beware of those who carry good news just so they can destroy the bearer of that good news!

[boycott]

Luntz is all GOPe. That is about as easy to see as his hair piece.

[Ms Mable]

LOL, the Luntz audience was non bias, conservative voters just like the moderators were non bias moderators.

They all had an agenda, and someone paid a whole lot of cash to get the anti-Trump message out there in front of the national audience.

Who paid Luntz to smear Trump?

[Randy Larsen]

When, ol’ wise one, has anyone YOU supported won a truly important seat anywhere?

My record is unblemished after listening to the all knowing talking heads with lips that move but lies come out!

My record is zero, zip, nada, nothing! Even when I won, I lost because they refused to do what they said they would do.

I’m giving Trump one last shot then I’m done voting for republicans.

[WilliamIII]

I see dead consultants daddy

[be-baw]

He didn’t get a chance. Poodle Paul interrupted him and the moderators turned their attention to the curly-qued one.

[RedMDer]

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[CivilWarBrewing]

I think they simply told Luntz, “If you enjoy being on Fox, then..”

[MinuteGal]

The tres-liberal, 40-something Murdoch sons officially took over the family media business on July 1.

Lefty Papa Murdoch is not retired, so he says, just turning the day-to-day operations over to the "boys", probably so he has more time to have cozy dinners with Valkyrie Jarrett.

If you've been watching Fox News closely the past couple weeks you can tell which Fox regulars have been steering hard to the left to please the new proprietary brothers....Frank Klutz, Mayhem Kelly and Steven Hayes come to mind at the moment.

Leni

[Fiddlstix]

Thanks for the update. I rarely see TV news so I would not know without your post

[onyx]

Aha! Those sons of his took over July 1.
Thank you for the info!!!

[Ms Mable]

Exactly. I think some of them screwed up the script. When they all raised their hand it was so obvious.
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Yup, big screw up. What was the percentage of Trump supporters before the debate? 20-30 percent?

What percentage of people in the focus group raised their hand saying they supported Trump ‘before’ the debate?? If I remember right, it was maybe 70%/80%? 70-80 percent of the general population have NEVER supported Trump!!! OOOOPS!

How did Luntz get 70%ish of the focus group to say they were pre-debate supports of Trump when NO poll has ever said that?

[Ms Mable]

I think they simply told Luntz, “If you enjoy being on Fox, then..”
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IMO, he looked like a trained seal. He was so gleeful.

[bgill]

I saw the destruction of several campaigns - Jeb, Christie, Fiorina, Kasich, Paul, and Perry.

[ldish]

just read a little history about his father sen Prescott, Bush, Harriman, and Dulles of the cia...poppie was at zapata oil company in gulf during bay of pigs before Kennedy was assassinated - wonder were they were when he was assassinated??????

[Fiddlstix]

Okay. Provide Link please or name of book and where I might get a copy.

[ldish]

btw - never said he was in politics during Kennedy assassination...just wonder who he and his company Zapara were really working cover for during the assassination?

[right way right]

What a silly gimmick FOX had. I hate the stupid focus group interviews, in fact I think it's down right insulting and even embarrassing to think that they can form a consensus in my own mind by having me listen to a group of supposed somewhat categorized yahoos about their ‘feelings’ and then looking at how the stupid dial gimmick makes a line read, give me a break, I can listen and form my own thoughts thank you very much.
Hell, if I were there I would never touch the dial until Ted Cruz speaks and then I would turn it up and leave it until I turn it down for the next guy. Run on sentence rant over.

[Fiddlstix]

What are you saying? Poppa Bush was in the Mafia.
It has long been established the Joe Kennedy had Mafia connections