GOP Pollster: Republican Leaders Are Mocking 'Child' Trump Behind His Back
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Ed Mazza
Speaking to The Daily Beast , Luntz noted a joke New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) made last week at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington.
“ He’s fucking crazy ,” Sununu said of Trump. “I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out.”
Although the event is known for its roast-level jokes of political figures, Luntz said Sununu’s crack was indicative of something larger.
“I don’t know a single Republican who was surprised by what Sununu said. He said what they were thinking,” Luntz told The Daily Beast. “They won’t say it [in public], but behind his back, they think he’s a child. They’re laughing at him. That’s what made it significant.”
Luntz also indicated that Trump’s influence was growing weaker within the party.
“Trump isn’t the same man he was a year ago,” Luntz added. “Even many Republicans are tired of going back and rehashing the 2020 election. Everybody else has moved on and in Washington everyone believes he lost the election.”
Luntz’s comments came after a series of rallies in which Trump drew smaller-than-expected crowds . Over the weekend, another GOP figure called it a sign of the former president’s diminished status .
“That’s what you saw there: a very shrinking base,” Republican strategist Susan Del Percio told MSNBC ’s Cori Coffin after Trump addressed a sparse crowd in Selma, North Carolina.
Republicans, she said, are “done with Donald Trump and his lies ― except for a small group that we see there.”
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
Those that still support him are such a diehard crowd.
Yep....they are a dedicated and persistent bunch of idiots, as was shown last weekend by Colorado Republicans. The good news is, is their numbers continue to decline.
This is not that complicated. If Trump runs in 2024 he will win the nomination and all the brave conservatives who say they are "tired of him" now will fall in behind him and support everything he says and does. You can take that to the bank.
Trump will be the nominee for a couple reasons. First, he will lie about and smear anyone who runs against him and the negative "information" will take a toll on his opponents. Secondly, he may not need to get a lot of the GOP primary voters support, just more than any other candidate. It is not hard to see him being the nominee even though no more than 35 or 40 percent of Republicans originally support him. That will still be more than any of the other contenders have.
I saw a poll a couple days ago that showed Trump easily winning a multi-person race for the GOP nomination.
Nah...not gonna happen, JR. Once the Republicans take over control of Congress later this year, DeSantis, and others ,will start to challenge him. Wait and see!