Anti-Trump Pollster Stuns CNN Panel, Reveals New ‘Silent Majority’ Getting Behind DJT

Republican pollster Frank Luntz, no fan of former President Donald Trump by any measure, believes that he is drawing a significant “silent majority” of support among blue-collar union workers that have diverged further from their liberal leadership than ever before.

Speaking on CNN, Luntz explained how, over more than three decades of polling Americans, he has never seen such animosity between union bosses and their bases. Trump, he added, is the fissure line. “I assure you that Donald Trump is doing better among the average union member – not teachers unions and not the unions for government, but everybody else – trades, people working with their hands. He’s doing better among them than any Republican has done in decades. This is not gonna be a problem for him. The union leadership is more divided from their membership, and the louder it is the greater the divides are gonna come,” he told host Abby Phillip and the rest of the panel. “And in my focus groups, and this is remarkable to me, the union membership says ‘They don’t speak for me.'”

The panel on CNN was held in response to news that the United Auto Workers union filed federal labor charges against President Trump and X owner Elon Musk following a conversation that included the topic of non-union labor. Famously, President Trump grew a groundswell of union support in his victorious campaign over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and more recently has enjoyed a warm relationship with Teamsters President Sean O’Brien whom he invited to speak at the Republican National Convention last month. O’Brien touted the appearance as a prime opportunity to bring unions’ concerns to an entirely new segment of conservative Americans but has drawn scorn from other Teamsters leaders for straying far from their traditional Democratic base. Such instances are unprecedented in all his years of polling, Luntz added.

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“I’ve been in this now since, and I hate to say this, 1989, 1990. I’ve never had union people publicly say ‘they don’t speak for me,'” he reiterated.

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Throughout his campaign, President Trump hasn’t shied away from appearing before union crowds when he spots an opening to seek support. Last year, he skipped the first GOP debate and announced his intention to visit Michigan, a key swing state and site of the first strike in 100 years to affect all three of the nation’s major auto companies. Shortly after in September, the Oil and Gas Workers Association, which is comprised of 50,000 members who work in domestic drilling, announced that it would support President Trump in the GOP primary as well as the general election. He continued the trend during his Manhattan hush money trial, appearing before New York construction union workers who were enthusiastic about telling the press they were supporting Trump.

Steamfitters Local 638 president Bobby Bartels told Newsmax he had a chance to discuss with Trump some of the most pressing issues for his members, including immigration, crime, and high prices. “In the past, we are basically Democrats, all of us. And after what’s happened the last 4 years in this country, Democrats are basically pushing everybody to the other side,” he said at the time. “We are a very patriotic group and we love our country and we want the best for America. We are tired of immigration, we are tired of our tax dollars going to immigration, we are tired of the crime, we need to put a handle back on things in this country.”

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