Frank Luntz Tells CNN Seizing Trump Properties Will Backfire: ‘You Are Going to Elect Donald Trump’

GOP pollster Frank Luntz issued a stark warning to New York Attorney General Letitia James as she prepared to seize properties belonging to former President Donald Trump: Do it, and you’ll re-elect Donald Trump.

During a panel discussion on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, with CNN anchors John Berman and Phil Mattingly filling in, Luntz was asked for his political perspective of this development in Trump’s legal woes. Luntz, who is not a supporter of Trump, played out a possible scenario that could work in Trump’s favor:

I want you to remember this moment, and don’t forget it. If the New York Attorney General starts to take his homes away, starts to seize his assets, it’s all going to be on camera. Pundits are going to sit there and scream about this, “This man cannot be elected.” You’re going to create the greatest victimhood of 2024, and you’re going to elect Donald Trump.

If they take his stuff, he’s going to say that this is proof that the federal government and the establishment in the swamp in Washington, and all the politicians across the country and the attorneys generals and all of this, that this is a conspiracy to deny him the presidency. He’s going to go up in the polls just like he went up every single time they indicted him. The indictment, and let’s not talk about whether it’s justified or not, but it will prove the things that he’s saying on the campaign trail, and he will go up, and it may just elect him president. Do not forget that.

Then Luntz turned directly to the camera:

And I say this to the attorney general right now, if you play politics on this, this is what the Secretaries of State did in Colorado, and what they did in, I believe is Maine, his numbers went up in both states. I don’t understand. I’m almost speechless in how pathetic the opposition to Trump has been and how completely misguided. And this is a perfect example of it.

He added later in the same segment:

How is Donald Trump beating [President] Joe Biden? He’s got 85 indictments that still exist. Felonies. How is he beating Joe Biden? With the economy getting better and things cleaning up? Okay, we [still have] inflation. You still got immigration. Trump is leading. And in the seven swing states, Trump is up by the margin of error in five out of seven. Why is that happening? Because his critics are stupid and they’re running a horrible campaign. And for those people who do not want Donald Trump back, they should be thankful that the people who are orchestrating his loss are as pathetic and they don’t understand the American people.

Watch the video above via CNN.