Focus Group Descends into Chaos as Trump Supporter Yells, ‘You Guys Can’t Handle That!’
A focus group devolved into a shouting match as supporters and opponents of former President Donald Trump had it out.
Republican pollster Frank Luntz shared footage of the event with CNN’s OutFront. During Friday’s edition of the program, guest host Erica Hill aired snippets of the chaos:
MAN 1: How condescending was Obama? I couldn’t stand to watch that guy. He just looked down on top of everybody! Trump will get down in the dirt and work with you.
MAN 2: So, you want respect, but you have a president who takes on women minorities, everything but White males–
MAN 1: And you know what? He won the election! And he won! And you guys can’t handle that!
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WOMAN: I don’t know why he’s racist. You’d have to ask him… Because he sits up and he says all those Mexicans are rapists and murderers.
[CROSSTALK]
WOMAN: Yes, he did.
MAN 3: He said, “The worst among them. Some of them are rapists.”
Hill introduced Luntz to the program and asked him, “What are you learning from these groups in these moments?”
“That there’s no editing anymore,” he replied. “There’s no censorship, that we now say what we think. We say what we want people to hear rather than trying to learn.”
“They wanna be heard,” Hill echoed. “Do they wanna listen?”
“No, they don’t wanna listen,” Luntz answered. “They don’t wanna learn. And my issue in this is, children are watching. Our kids are watching this and they’re learning model behavior.”
Luntz went on to say the worst behavior he’s seen is at school board meetings.
“The school boards are the worst,” he said. “Parents go there and they threaten the people on the school board. They have to get cops in there. What is wrong with this country that we’ve gone that far?”
Watch above via CNN