Pollster Frank Luntz threw out three names that he believes could replace President Joe Biden on the Democratic ticket, but he made one glaring omission.
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During a segment on CNBC’s Squawk Box, Luntz was asked by Andrew Ross Sorkin if Democrats had anyone on deck who could give the GOP “a run for their money.”
“I absolutely can identify three people who could do it. Cory Booker, the senator from New Jersey, former mayor Newark, brought a city that was on its knees back up to its feet, an amazing speaker, brings crowds, gets standing ovations wherever he goes,” he said “Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland who has already handled a nationwide crisis, the striking of the bridge, and understands what it is to get things done. And then Mitch Landrieu, the former mayor of New Orleans when the city was going through the hell that it went through, once again a city that was brought to its feet. All three of them would give Trump a tremendous run for [his] money because all three of them are great politicians.”
Notably left off the list was Vice President Kamala Harris, which Sorkin was quick to ask about.
“Her numbers are better today than they were six months ago — right now Joe would be yelling at me — so she has improved, but they’re going to ask what has she done as vice president?” the political strategist pointed out. “In fact, I can see the Trump commercial already ‘Can you name anything that the vice president has achieved in the four years that she’s served?’ and just have a blank ad for the next 60 seconds.”
“It throws everything up in the air, I don’t like to speculate, all I can say is, you take away the nomination from her and you cause the Democrats to fall into utter chaos. There will be a war within the Democratic Party,” Luntz predicted. “But if you give the nomination to her, there are so many donors who don’t want her as the nominee because of the last four years, that I would not want to be a Democratic strategist right now. Because you’re damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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