{"id":487941,"date":"2021-05-09T08:51:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487941"},"modified":"2021-05-09T08:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T12:51:31","slug":"frank-luntz-i-think-tucker-is-running-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/frank-luntz-i-think-tucker-is-running-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Luntz: \u2018I Think Tucker Is Running For President\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrank-luntz-i-think-tucker-is-running-for-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=487941&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"41.005213764338\">\n<p>Republican pollster Frank Luntz said that his recent feud with Tucker Carlson is due to Carlson\u2019s presidential aspirations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Tucker is running for president,\u201d Luntz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/05\/06\/opinion\/sway-kara-swisher-frank-luntz.html?showTranscript=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> the New York Times podcast \u201cSway\u201d Thursday. Carlson, who co-founded the Daily Caller, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/tucker-carlson-leader-mccarthy-frank-luntz-roommates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> Monday that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy rents a room from Luntz in the pollster\u2019s Washington, DC apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson alleged that McCarthy\u2019s living arrangement violates House ethics rules on receiving gifts, since Luntz previously worked for Google.<\/p>\n<p>Luntz denied any violation in the interview. \u201cI\u2019m not a lobbyist. I\u2019ve worked through Google on language. I don\u2019t advocate for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7187338\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7187338\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7187338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frank-luntz-scaled-1.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frank-luntz-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frank-luntz-170x120.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frank-luntz-620x437-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frank-luntz-768x541-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frank-luntz-1536x1082-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/frank-luntz-2048x1442-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7187338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor and GOP consultant Frank Luntz speaks to students with the US secretary of state at the NYU Abu Dhabi campus in Abu Dhabi on January 13, 2019. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo credit should read ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cTucker realizes that he can make any accusation he wants to make, and that cadre, because he\u2019s very popular among a certain segment of conservatism. I think Tucker is running for president. And I think that\u2019s what he\u2019s going to do. And I think he\u2019s going to try to demonize and destroy anyone who might stand up against him. And that\u2019s all that this is,\u201d Luntz claimed.<\/p>\n<p>Carlson recently clashed with the Biden administration after the host <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/10\/tucker-carlson-changes-mockery-us-military\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">criticized<\/a> what he viewed as an excessive focus on diversity issues in the armed forces. Carlson expressed concern that such a focus could detract from military readiness. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/11\/us-military-launches-coordinated-strikes-against-american-tv-host\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: US Military Launches Coordinated Strikes Against American TV Host)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The British oddsmaker Paddy Power <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/31\/oddsmakers-tucker-carlson-2024-presidential-win\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gave<\/a> Carlson a 50 to 1 chance to win the 2024 presidential election in December. He <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/01\/tucker-carlson-cpac-straw-poll-2024-gop-presidential-nominee-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received<\/a> 3% support in the 2021 CPAC straw poll. Carlson has denied interest in running for office on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican pollster Frank Luntz said that his recent feud with Tucker Carlson is due to Carlson\u2019s presidential aspirations. \u201cI think Tucker is running for president,\u201d Luntz told the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1888328,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-487941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}