Pollster Explains: If Trump Wins “My Profession is Done”

Pollster Frank Luntz told Fox News Thursday night that if Donald Trump wins the upcoming November Presidential election his profession is “done” in terms of public trust and confidence.

“Well, I hate to acknowledge it, because that’s my industry — at least partially — but the public will have no faith. No confidence Right now, the biggest issue is the trust deficit,” Luntz told Fox News’ Bret Baier during Thursday night’s pre-debate coverage. “And pollsters did not do a good job in 2016. So if Donald Trump surprises people, if Joe Biden had a 5- or 6-point lead, and Donald Trump wins … my profession is done.”

As The Hill reports:

Recent polls show Biden ahead nationally in some polls by double digits, with the former vice president ahead in the majority of battleground states. Biden is also competing with Trump in states like Georgia and Texas, which are normally carried by Republican candidates. 

Polls in 2016 turned out to be quite deceiving as many showed Hillary Clinton with up to a 70% of defeating Donald Trump all the way up to the morning of election day.

In October 2016, The New York Times polls were showing Clinton as a 93% favorite.

While Thursday’s final debate went on, Luntz held a focus group that asked 13 undecided voters that are currently registered to vote in one of 13 swing states who they would vote for if the election were held today.

If the results of this focus group give any tell towards what will happen on Nov. 3rd, the pollsters may indeed be out of a job…

Chris Menahan of Information Liberation reports:

President Donald Trump absolutely dominated Joe Biden during the second and final presidential debate, according to pollster Frank Luntz’ focus group of undecided voters from swing states.

After the debate was over, Luntz asked 13 undecided voters that are currently registered to vote in one of 13 swing states and self-described as “possible” Biden or Trump voters who they would vote for if the election were held today.

Nine raised their hands for Trump.

Only one raised their hand for Joe Biden.

Every single person raised their hand to say Trump is better on the economy

The focus group said they don’t care about Trump’s (illegally leaked) taxes and “it’s not enough for Biden to be anti-Trump.”

This must have been devastating to Luntz, who earlier this week tried to make himself the story by claiming the Trump campaign was the “worst ever” in history and his advisors have “their heads up their asses” if they think Hunter Biden’s dealings are a winning issue for them.

“Nobody cares about Hunter Biden … why is [Trump] spending all his time on him?” Luntz said

“Hunter Biden does not help put food on the table. Hunter Biden does not help anyone get a job. Hunter Biden does not provide health care or solve COVID. And Donald Trump spends all of his time focused on that and nobody cares.”

“If Donald Trump doesn’t score a knockout [in the final debate] then there’s not enough campaigning or mindshare to give him a chance to catch Joe Biden,” Luntz said.

As I said in my debate write-up, Trump delivered in spades.

Though Luntz tweeted all about his focus group on Thursday night, he failed to mention they said they’d vote Trump over Biden 9-1.

Incidentally, Luntz himself was drawn into the Hunter Biden story after Steve Bannon’s crew leaked one of his emails to Hunter.

His response appeared to confirm the emails’ authenticity.