Longtime GOP pollster predicts Trump’s campaign is over after ‘very close’ to worst debate performance ever

Longtime GOP pollster Frank Luntz has predicted that Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign is now over after he gave “very close” to the worst debate performance ever seen on Tuesday night.

“It was a pretty negative performance – pretty pessimistic, cynical, contemptuous,” Luntz said on Piers Morgan Uncensored on Wednesday. “And I think that this will cost him.”

He added: “This is not the worst debate performance I’ve seen in my career, but it’s very close to it.”

The pollster not only claimed that Harris defeated Trump on the debate stage, but predicted that the night’s events had lost Trump the race for the White House altogether.

“I’m trying to decide if I want to go on record,” Luntz continued. “And the answer is yes. I think that he loses because of this debate performance.”

One week beforeTrump and Kamala Harris came face-to-face on the stage in Philadelphia, the veteran pollster had predicted on CNN that “the debate is everything.”

On Tuesday night, a handshake and a brief exchange of well wishes between the presidential candidates set the stage for a cordial debate at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

But the former president quickly reverted to his personal and policy-based lines of attacks – including pushing wild, false claims that Democrats want to execute babies after birth and that migrants are eating pet dogs and cats.

His performance has been branded a “disaster” by several Republican heavyweights and even his new ally Robert F Kennedy Jr admitted Harris “clearly won” the debate.

“Vice President Harris clearly won the debate in terms of her delivery, polish, organization, and preparation,” RFK Jr told Fox News on Wednesday.

The public appears to agree, with a CNN flash poll finding