Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:30 pm
Despite the Trump campaign’s best efforts to pretend Michigan and Pennsylvania were in play as the election season came to a close, Republican pollster Frank Luntz says Republicans can kiss the two states goodbye – and, as a result, probably the entire election.
Luntz also says Wisconsin, another longshot for Trump, is firmly in the Clinton column.
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The numbers I'm getting now suggest a nationwide turnout that strongly favors Hillary.
And if Hillary does well, so will down-ballot Dems.
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 8, 2016
The turnout in Democratic Philadelphia is so high that it's hard to see Trump overcoming it in the rest of the state. #ElectionNight
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 8, 2016
The turnout in Madison and Ann Arbor suggest that Trump is going to have a bad time in Wisconsin and Michigan. #ElectionNight
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 8, 2016
In case I wasn't clear enough from my previous tweets:
Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States. #ElectionNight
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 8, 2016
Luntz’s bad news for the Republicans didn’t just stop at the presidential race, however. He also said turnout is so strong for Clinton that it will likely trickle down into key U.S. Senate races and leave Democrats with a majority in the important chamber of Congress.
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I'm starting to think Democrats will take the Senate majority tonight.#ElectionNight
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) November 8, 2016
On an important election night, this is the kind of happy talk that one may expect from Democrats. The fact that a Republican pollster is saying these things probably spells trouble for the Trump campaign.
Sean Colarossi currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and was an organizing fellow for both of President Obama’s presidential campaigns. He also worked with Planned Parenthood as an Affordable Care Act Outreach Organizer in 2014, helping northeast Ohio residents obtain health insurance coverage.
