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Published On: Fri, Aug 8th, 2025

Frank Luntz: “If You Voted For Trump, This Is Exactly Almost To The Letter What You Wanted”

Pollster Frank Luntz told CNN’s Brianna Keilar on Thursday that President Donald Trump is satisfying his voters while remaining a nightmare to Democrats.

BRIANNA KEILAR: We’re joined now by pollster and communications guru, Frank Luntz. Always interesting to talk to you, Frank, about how voters are seeing this because you just did an interview with the Times of London and you say that no U.S. president has accomplished as much as Trump in so short a time since FDR almost a century ago, and that Americans are getting what they voted for. The question, Frank, is do Americans like what they’re getting? FRANK LUNTZ, POLLSTER AND COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIST: Well, it depends on your perspective. If you voted for Donald Trump, this is exactly, almost to the letter, what you wanted. You didn’t mind about the anger. You didn’t mind the conflict between the Republicans and the Democrats. What you wanted was to make a border safe and secure, which they’ve done. What you wanted were tax cuts, which he’s done. What you wanted was cuts to spending, which he’s done. Element after element, he delivered exactly what he said he was going to do, and that’s why his own voters believe that this has been an incredibly successful presidency. Now, on the other side, the Democrats hoped that Trump would be more talk than action, and it is of tremendous fear to them that the country seems to be slipping away because the things that they hold dear, the federal spending, higher taxes, an immigration policy that is more about compassion than about enforcement. To them, this has been a nightmare, and it’s why you saw briefly in that town hall meeting. The issue that I warned people who are watching this broadcast right now is that there’s a lot of manufactured anger out there, but it is felt by those who voted against him. So the best way to analyze this is it’s Charles Dickens, a tale of two cities, a tale of two presidencies, whether you voted for him or voted against him.

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