Frank Luntz focus group is killing Trump.
Frank Putz has phony Trump supporters. I find it hard to believe that Trump’s debate performance would have turned off any real Trump supporters. I smell shills who pretended to be for Trump for the cameras.
Not defending the guy...but as someone who runs focus groups you do not lead them anywhere. You take the gig and squeeze every comment out of everyone. HIS problem is using a very small sample and presenting it as a statistical representation.
On that opening question of pledge to support I would have considered not raising my hand.
Refusing to raise your hand cannot be interpreted as a pledge. Knowing it was a setup question, that would then force the moderators to single him out and ask individually which would make it an even more obviously a gotcha question.