Trump may be 'impossible to take down,' top Republican pollster says

NJ.com ^ | 08/25/2015 | Claude Brodesser-Akner

[BuckeyeTexan]

LEXANDRIA, Va. — A new focus group commissioned by GOP pollster Frank Luntz shows Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump is virtually invulnerable to attack by rival 2016 candidates and the media, leading Luntz to say that it is now "totally conceivable" that Trump will become the Republican Party's nominee for president.

"The Republican leadership needs to wake up and see that the grass roots has abandoned them," said Luntz, the head of Luntz Global, a top GOP polling and messaging consultancy.

"This is a different cat," Luntz added. "It's not like Ross Perot in 1992, where people were simply unhappy with the two major parties; they're choosing Trump affirmatively. Honestly, my legs are shaking looking at these numbers. All those people who think he's going to implode are wrong. He's not going away."

[BuckeyeTexan]

“They’re ‘mad as hell and not going to take it anymore,’” Luntz said.  ”And (Trump) personifies it: Each sees in him what they want for the country. They want him to fix what makes them mad, and they believe he will.”

[sockmonkey]

Is this the same big $$$$ pollster who said Trump had crashed and burned? Too funny.

[pops88]

“The Republican leadership needs to wake up and see that the grass roots has abandoned them,”

Just figuring this out, eh? Day late, dollar short there.

[fuente]

Stupid Pubby pollster doesn’t even understand that the Washington insider Pubbies (like himself) are the real ISSUE!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Frank Luntz? Man, that guy did a 180 with one kick from Trump. What a wimp.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Seems to me that he gets it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Trump must have hurt Luntz’s business real bad : )

[Qiviut]

Backpedaling away from the buzz saw as fast as he can.

[Red Steel]

But but but Buck I thought Trump’s polling ceiling was only 20%?!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Think Trump hurt his feeling worse...

[NRx]

So... Is it too early to start asking how bad it is going to be with the Clintons back in the White House for four years?

[HarleyLady27]

...another ‘spineless sissy’ bit the dust....

GO Trump 2016!!!

[SubMareener]

History Repeats:

Honestly, my legs are shaking looking at these numbers.

Daniel 5
5 In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

Nelson, Thomas (2009-02-18). Holy Bible, New King James Version (NKJV) (p. 865). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

[Red Steel]

LoL. Looks like Trump slapping Lutz around gets more honest results out of him.

[lodi90]

The GOPe don’t care. The progressives in the GOP tent will happily vote for the Dem on the ticket if a cartel buster is the GOP nominee.

[for-q-clinton]

Yes I noticed that after Trump attacked him back his reporting has changed completely.

I’m starting to think the new elite strategy is to act like Trump is real and that will “scare” his supporters into reality that the dog may catch the truck.

[fuente]

Not really. He doesn’t get that a HUGE majority of them are tea partiers, he doesn’t get it that this is not a new phenomena, he doesn’t get that the tea party was stood up for the same reason. THE EXACT SAME REASON! None of this is new. Only the candidate. Trump has given a voice to the outsiders. We gave them majorities in both houses and they have done NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING! Luntz does not get it. But he sees it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

No doubt.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Even sightless swine feasts on nutmeats occasionally.