‘The Public Demands A Detailed Plan’: Frank Luntz Torpedoes Harris’ Rhetoric In MSNBC Interview, Economic Speech

Pollster Frank Luntz on Thursday criticized Vice President Kamala Harris’ rhetoric during her Wednesday interview and economic speech.

Luntz appeared on “Squawk Box,” where co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin played a clip of Harris’ interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle where she repeatedly asserted that wealthy Americans and corporations need to “pay their fair share” of taxes. Luntz said voters do not want to hear that phase, as they want more specific policies from Harris that she is not delivering.

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“Some of what she has said in the last few weeks are exactly what voters want to hear. That is not. ‘Pay their fair share.’ We’ve heard it now for how many years, 30, maybe 40? What exactly is fair share? … And the issue for that is it’s a sound bite, it’s a slogan. And I know that I’m a messaging person so that’s my job,” the pollster said. “However, the public demands a detailed plan of action and they’re not getting it from her … She’s addressing housing, she’s addressing health care, she’s addressing food and fuel, so she’s doing the policy.”

Luntz then turned his attention to Harris’ economic speech in Pittsburgh, where the vice president pledged to be “pragmatic. ”

“I’ll give you an example, ‘pragmatic’ versus ‘common sense.’ Pragmatic says that she’s going to do what’s smart polling-wise, what’s smart politically,” he said. “What the public is asking for is, ‘If you’re going to raise taxes, tell us where it’s going to come, tell us the impact,’ which is what they’re looking for and in the end, ‘Let us keep just a little bit more of what we make and let us be just a little bit more affordable in how we live.’”