Posted on 01/29/2016 9:48:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) apparently won over a Fox News focus group evaluating the network's Republican presidential debate on Thursday night. Veteran GOP pollster Frank Luntz, who conducted the focus group, told moderator Megyn Kelly that her grilling of Rubio on immigration had truly impressed the voters he was monitoring.
"The most important and impactful moment of this debate. It was your challenge of Marco Rubio — and watch how well he did on immigration," Luntz told Kelly on her show after the debate.
At the debate, Kelly had pressed Rubio using his past statements on illegal immigration. As his critics often note, the Florida senator had once backed a comprehensive immigration-reform package that included a path to citizenship before backing off his own bill.
"Haven't you already proven that you cannot be trusted on this issue?" Kelly asked Rubio.
Rubio said matter-of-factly that he would not embrace a hard-line approach like deporting everyone who immigrated into the US illegally. However, he also said he would work through Congress and not implement major immigration-policy changes through executive action like President Barack Obama.
"Absolutely. We're not going to round up and deport 12 million people. But we're not going to go around handing out citizenship cards, either. There will be a process. We will see what the American people are willing to support. But it will not be unconstitutional executive orders," Rubio said as part of Luntz's highlight reel.
The focus group reacted by applauding. Several participants told Luntz they became Rubio supporters after watching the debate. They used words like "organized," "confident," "presidential," and "electable" to describe him, when asked to use a single word or phrase.
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I think RUSh said that the Luntz focus group was pro-Rubio from the start.
Bottom line, the FOX hosts are supporting the establishment candidate, Rubio,
Yup, can’t trust nothing coming out of fox
So, a commitment to do nothing was the winner?
What did the Galvanic Skin Response test indicate?
So he’s just a more polished liar now. Nothing has changed except the lies.
So the focus group likes backstabbing sellouts, eh?
I watched the focus group analysis after the debate.
Luntz is a disgusting slug. Anyone who can stand to be around him more than 15 seconds is not trustworthy.
Was the focus group undecided Iowa voters enthusiastic about caucusing?
What the American people are willing to support is the rigorous enforcement of the law, including deportations. It is a shame. I liked Rubio until he went soft on immigration.
Fix News.
“What the American people are willing to support is the rigorous enforcement of the law, including deportations.”
exactly!
Frank Luntz’s focus groups are pure b.s. At the start of the first debate he had a group where all but two or three of the attendees were Trump supporters. After the debate there were no Trump supporters but as a result of that debate Trump soared in the polls. Luntz gets the results that globalist Rupert Murdoch tells him to get.
Remember the FIX producers who writes the questions daughter works for the Rubio campaign.
Did it appear to anyone who watched it, that he may have been given questions before debate ?
Several articles covering it yesterday.
Sammson???? Iirc
Luntz has lost all credibility long ago and is a tool for the establishment, FOX included. Going to drag Rubio over the finish line.
I never want to hear the words Focus Group or frank Puntz again.
We need to display this guy’s head on a pike (politically speaking) as a warning to all potential future “Gang Of” quislings.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
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