Republican pollster Frank Luntz said on Tuesday that he believes the “next 48 hours will be among the worst for the Republican Party”, amid the second round of elections in Georgia on Tuesday and in the vote to certify the Electoral College of the Republic. Congress on Wednesday.
Luntz told CNBC’s “The Squawk” that Democrats have an advantage as a “unified” party, as Senate elections are held in Georgia to determine whether the senator. Kelly Loeffler
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“There is a greater division in the Republican Party than in the Democratic Party,” he said. “The party is falling apart and you don’t do it now, when you are so close to the most important election for the Senate, literally, in your entire life. Democrats are unified, Republicans are not, and that’s what gives them the edge. ”
“I think the next 48 hours will be the worst for the GOP,” he added.
The Republican Party’s fracture has been most visible in Washington, as Congress prepares to meet to approve the vote on the Electoral College, the final step of the elected president Joe Biden
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Trump refused to budge, citing baseless allegations of widespread electoral fraud, and several Republicans pledged to challenge the Electoral College vote to try to overturn the election in favor of the president.
Luntz pointed to Trump’s allegations of electoral fraud, saying they likely hurt candidates in Georgia’s runoff by discouraging Republican voters from participating in the election.
“Democrats have been voting in record numbers for the past two, three weeks,” he said. “Republicans are being instructed to stay home and Donald Trump, when he shows up to give that final rallying cry, he spends as much time talking about his own election as he does about Republicans.”
Loeffler will face Democratic candidate Rev. Raphael Warnock, while Perdue will face Jon Ossoff in the two contests that will determine which party controls the Senate.
If one of the Republicans wins, the Republican Party will retain the majority in the upper house, but if the two Democrats win, the Senate will be divided by 50-50 with the elected vice president Kamala Harris
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Dozens of Republicans in the House and Senate have pledged to contest the Electoral College vote on Wednesday and intend to get enough support in Congress to send the matter to state legislatures, mostly Republicans.
But the effort is unlikely to succeed, as Democrats control the House and several Republican leaders and senators have spoken out against the measure.