GOP Pollster Delivers Some Really Bad News To Trump After Debate Disaster

Longtime Republican pollster Frank Luntz said the presidential election is basically over after Vice President Kamala Harris drubbed Donald Trump at Tuesday night’s debate.

“I’m trying to decide if I want to go on record and the answer is yes,” he told Piers Morgan on Wednesday. “I think that he loses because of this debate performance.”

He added:

He said Trump’s treatment of Harris and his refusal to even look at the vice president will hurt him especially with women.

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“Donald Trump reminds women of their first husband’s divorce lawyer,” he said. “That is just absolutely disastrous.”

Luntz predicted that the effects of the debate will start to appear in polls within four or five days.

“But I do think that this has the potential to be a fatal mistake on Trump’s part,” he said.

See his full conversation with Morgan