How Messaging From Republicans Will Change After President Biden Dropped Out Of The Election

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Pollster Frank Luntz joined "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss how the Republican message will change after President Biden announced his decision to withdraw from the election.

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00:00What do you think the Republican Party is going to do going forward?

00:05Because you were in Milwaukee, you were at the RNC, and a lot of the speeches centered

00:10around President Biden and how the GOP platform is better suited than four more years of Biden.

00:18Now there's no Biden.

00:20So how does their messaging change within the next three and a half months?

00:24Well, first off, I would change who they're targeting.

00:28They talk about blue collar, working class, I won't call them that.

00:31These are paycheck to paycheck voters, and that's how they should be looked at.

00:37People who, if they lose their jobs, they could lose their houses, they would lose their

00:41cars, they could lose their American dream.

00:46And there are so many paycheck to paycheck voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin,

00:51and they don't want to be classified by class.

00:53They don't look at themselves that way, but this is how they live.

00:57And in the end, the Republican Party does have an agenda for them.

01:01And the vice president choice, J.D. Vance, comes from that group of people.

01:07And I think Vance is better at articulating what these paycheck to paycheck voters really

01:15think, really believe, and really want.

01:19On the other hand, Harris offers these voters a brand new approach to governing and a brand

01:28new look at what the Democratic Party really stands for.

01:32But we're still not going to know that until the convention itself.

01:37I was shocked at how many people of color addressed the GOP convention.

01:42I was shocked at how many non-politicians were invited to participate, and how open

01:49the Republican Party was towards union membership, towards the rank and file.

01:54This is not a Republican Party I remember.

01:57This is not a Republican Party I'm familiar with.

02:00This is a Republican Party that, for the first time, wasn't drawing a line at roughly 46%

02:05of the vote.

02:07They were drawing a line at a majority.

02:10It looked and felt and sounded much more American than anything that I've seen since

02:17Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

02:20If that's enough, we don't know.

02:22That still may not be enough, and it may be too new to too many people.

02:27But it was a very successful convention.

02:31Donald Trump had a very, very well-written 45-minute speech.

02:36Then he blew it by using ad-libbing and jumping in and saying the stuff that belied his commitment

02:44to unity.

02:46I don't even know if he hears it.

02:48I don't even know if he recognizes that when you make a tax against Nancy Pelosi, when

02:53you do the ad hominem that he is so well-known for, that undermines his argument that this

02:59is a unified country and they're approaching America as one country.

03:06If he had stuck to his trip, it would have been one of the best convention speeches of

03:10all time.

03:12He didn't.

03:13He went way too long.

03:15Our undecided voters punished him for it, and I think we're going to see the consequences

03:21of that over the coming weeks.

How Messaging From Republicans Will Change After President Biden Dropped Out Of The Election

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