Can Frank Luntz help Speaker McCarthy find his way out of the current crisis of McCarthy's own making?
In May 2021 it became public – when then Fox News host Tucker Carlson announced it on his show – that then Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was living in the penthouse condo of Republican pollster Frank Luntz.
Frank Luntz is the “longtime pollster and political strategist best known for coaching GOP pols and others to use the terms “death tax” instead of “estate tax” and “climate change” instead of “global warming.”
Back in the early 1990s Luntz was the pollster that helped Newt Gingrich develop the Contract with America, that was the legislative agenda/marketing pitch that Gingrich used to propel Republicans to win the 1994 House elections.
We used to live in the same condo building as the penthouse condo Luntz was sharing with McCarthy. We were several floors below Luntz’s unit, which was a mega-penthouse that Luntz created by combining four three-story, three-bedroom/three-and-a-half-bath penthouses (each purchased for over a million dollars) into a single massive penthouse with views of the Washington Monument.
Over the last week residents of that condo building have spotted Capitol Hill police in the formal suits of a security detail guarding the door to that condo.
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