Stuart Stevens, the former chief strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, has made a striking prediction that defies current polling data.
Former President Donald Trump will lose the election, Stevens predicted.
He even went so far as to claim Vice President Kamala Harris is running “what we’re probably going to look back at as the best presidential campaign ever run.”
“Harris is going to win fairly comfortably. I think Harris is gonna win by a larger margin than 2020,” Stevens told Vanity Fair, despite current polling showing a neck-and-neck race with The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling index placing Harris at just 48.7% to Trump’s 47.7%.
Stevens, who left the Republican Party and now works with the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, claimed he knew better than the polls because “47 percent of the country is MAGA, 53% isn’t,” arguing the Harris campaign has successfully united diverse opposition to Trump.
In both 2016 and 2020, Trump far outperformed his polls, leading many experts to predict a red wave in the upcoming election. Indeed, early voting patterns seem to strongly favor Trump.
Stevens said told Vanity Fair that doesn’t matter, and that politicians like former Rep. Liz Cheney will put Harris over the top comfortably.
“Well, we woke up today and Liz Cheney and Bernie Sanders are supporting the same candidate for president. Not so bad,” Stevens said.
The former veteran Republican strategist dismissed Trump’s campaign as chaotic and unfocused.
“There is no plan except voter intimidation,” Stevens said. “Trump yesterday is the best day Trump’s going to have. Today, he’s worse. Tomorrow, he’ll be worse. He’s a guy who is in a physical and mental decline and he clearly is not enjoying himself.”
Stevens, who also previously worked on former President George W. Bush’s reelection campaign, also criticized the Trump campaigns attempts to appeal to voters, describing their approach as “the festival of imaginary demons” and arguing that “they are selling pagers in an iPhone world.”
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