This is pretty much delicious. Donald Trump is trying to get the GOP's golden boy pollster, Frank Luntz, fired from doing Fox focus groups,
reports Politico:
Luntz said Trump — and Democratic presidential insurgent Bernie Sanders — are “delivering a big ‘f—- you’ to the elites in America.
“And that resonates on both sides,” Luntz said. “But ‘f—- you’ doesn’t solve anything. ‘F—- you’ doesn’t make life any better. ‘F—- you’ makes you feel good, but it doesn’t get you where you need to go. ‘F—- you’ doesn’t make America strong. ‘F—- you’ doesn’t solve anything.”
Trump responded by accusing Luntz of harboring a long-held vendetta because Trump refused to do business with Luntz’s polling firm.
“I caught him cold,” Trump told POLITICO. “And frankly, if I was [Fox News President] Roger Ailes, I’d fire that guy so fast for what he did that his head would spin.”
You may recall what happened last time Trump and Ailes went toe to toe—
Ailes backed down. Will be interesting to see whether Trump can face down Ailes yet again.
But here's the best part of the piece—Luntz has claimed to be totally objective about Trump, yet other sources say:
... the pollster told a closed-door gathering of major conservative donors in Southern California that Trump was dangerous to Republicans and was “turning what we believe into a joke.”
Haha. Yes, indeed.