Democratic statesmanlike nominee Kamala Harris is embracing immoderate of the Republican Party's aged standbys arsenic her ain arsenic she gains crushed connected her GOP rival Donald Trump, pollster Frank Luntz said Tuesday.
Harris "is taking pages retired of the Republican playbook," Luntz said connected CNBC's "Squawk Box."
The governmental strategist meant that arsenic a compliment to the vice president.
He credited Harris for her "important usage of language," pointing to her absorption connected tiny concern issues and describing herself arsenic a capitalist. He besides noted her party's accent connected state during the Democratic National Convention.
"If you conscionable perceive to these wide statements, she really sounds similar a mean Republican," Luntz said.
"So the situation for the Trump run is to conscionable halt with these incessant quality attacks, and situation her connected the circumstantial issues and her claims."
"Because, fto maine archer you something, going to The New York Times' astir caller poll, she is opening to chopped through," helium added.
That canvass from The Times and Siena College, released Tuesday, recovered Harris starring Trump nationally for the archetypal clip since President Joe Biden dropped retired of the predetermination arsenic the presumptive Democratic nominee successful mid-July.
The canvass of 3,385 apt voters surveyed from Sept. 29 to Sunday gave Harris a flimsy borderline of 49% to 46% implicit Trump, wrong the poll's borderline of mistake of positive oregon minus 2.4 percent points.
The anterior Times/Siena canvass successful mid-September recovered the candidates tied astatine 47%.
The caller canvass indicated that Harris is making gains among older voters and Republicans.
And for the archetypal clip successful the Times/Siena poll, much respondents identified Harris arsenic the campaigner representing alteration alternatively of Trump.
Luntz said helium has seen akin shifts to Harris successful absorption groups of undecided voters that helium tracks.
He said those voters "moved distant from Joe Biden successful an extended way" earlier the president discontinue the race.
But, "They determination towards Kamala Harris aft that archetypal debate," Luntz said, referring to her Sept. 10 showdown with Trump.
"And close present they're asking: Who's telling maine the truth?"
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Luntz' besides weighed successful connected Harris' quality connected CBS News' "60 Minutes," which aired Monday night.
It "took a while," but Harris is present "taking the pugnacious interviews" and "being challenged," helium said.
Harris has been criticized for ducking unscripted nationalist appearances and avoiding large media interviews since she took implicit the Democratic ticket.
But her "60 Minutes" interrogation flips that script, Luntz argued, due to the fact that Trump backed out of a scheduled quality connected the aforesaid programme and has refused to statement Harris again.
"It is Donald Trump who is ducking debates," Luntz said. "She gets recognition for that."
Trump's run claimed astatine archetypal that negotiations with "60 Minutes" fell done due to the fact that the amusement insisted connected doing unrecorded fact-checking of Trump's claims.
The run aboriginal insisted that Trump deserved, but ne'er received, an apology from the show's newsman Lesley Stahl for however she handled his anterior appearance.
Luntz faulted Harris for failing successful her "60 Minutes" interrogation to connection specifics connected her assertion that she would partially money her economical plans by making definite the richest Americans "pay their just stock successful taxes."
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