The GOP’s wunderkind pollster swore he was finished with Washington — except that penthouse with Kevin McCarthy.
newspaper box in the corner? The one with the front page prominently displaying the headline “Rudy Would Win Today.” That was Luntz’s work. He had conducted that poll, and Rudy Giuliani liked it so much that he hired Luntz to work for him. Given what Giuliani had become — a Trump lackey, embarrassingly parroting the former president’s biggest lies — maybe he would want to dispose of this particular artifact? Nope. Keep it.
“There are some very serious people here,” he told me after I’d mentioned that I had just come from a Trump speech. “And some very not serious people here.” When Trump won, “Luntz found that very hard to accept,” Gingrich said. He once shared that apartment with Kevin McCarthy, one of his closest friends. When reports of this arrangement first surfaced in 2021, Tucker Carlson devoted multiple Fox News segments to eviscerating Luntz and McCarthy for their friendship. After painting Luntz as an elitist squish who did work for “liberal” organizations like Google and Nike, Carlson broke the news that the consultant and the congressman were Washington roommates.
“Because he is in person an even better person than he is in public,” he said. “And I try to be 80 percent as good as he is.” As movers carted away belongings from his Virginia home, Luntz told me he had to get into town for meetings on the Hill with seven senators . In the coming weeks and months, he’d continue to show up on television to talk about polling and political focus groups he had run. He’d never stop giving his friend McCarthy strategic advice. It seemed unlikely Luntz would ever fully leave Washington. Washington may have almost ended his life, but it also has helped keep him alive.
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