Republican strategist Frank Luntz discussed what he called policy lapses in Vice President Harris’s campaign platform during a recent CNN appearance highlighting gaps in her plans for the presidency.
“What is going to happen with affordability? What’s going to happen with the border, the two biggest issues immigration and affordability,” Luntz questioned.
“She’s done an excellent job on focusing on the abortion issue on the women’s health issues and even on health care but those aren’t the number one and number two issues for all of America and she still hasn’t said what she’s gonna do unless I missed it in the first hour of her presidency, in the first day of her presidency and in the first week of her presidency and she’s only got seven days to go,” Luntz told anchor Jim Scuitto.
Polls show former President Trump leading his opponent on the top issue for voters, the economy. Democrats are planning to spend the last week before the election hammering down on Harris’s proposals for the middle class which include tax breaks and credits for children.
“I imagine with eight days to go it’s probably too late to do that for most voters, but you have to try and the thing is this has not been a good campaign,” Scuitto said of their efforts. “This has not been a good election. There’s so many people who dislike both candidates.”
“It’s gonna be the highest negativity for the Republican and Democratic nominee in modern history that people are gonna hold their nose and vote for one or the other,” he predicted.
Luntz explained that Americans don’t feel as if either candidate has presented them with a viable plan for voters or their families.
“In the end the persuadables are asking for more details. They don’t feel like they’ve heard enough,” Luntz said. “They’ve heard the slams. They’ve heard the smears and they’ve heard the criticism. They simply want to know what are you going to do for them? And I think they’ve got the right to ask that question.”
The Hill reached out to the Harris campaign for comment.
