Republican consultant and pollster Frank Luntz warned President Donald Trump is now threatening the fabric of U.S. society with his administration's “tragedy” in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
“I think it's all chaos, and it's a tragedy that people have died in this process,” Luntz told CNN host Brianna Keilar in a Tuesday segment. “You should not be dying during a protest. We need to celebrate human life and that we're politicizing and polarizing on every single issue and every occurrence. … [I]nstead of trying to lower the temperature levels, instead of trying to address legitimate issues about what people are doing in this country who are here legally, they're trying to make political points, and now people have died. We've had this conversation before, you and I.”
The pollster referred to the January 24 shooting death of 37 year-old (ICU) nurse Alex Pretti at the hands of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the streets of Minneapolis, preceded by the fatal shooting of another Minneapolis resident, unarmed motorist Renee Nicole Good, by ICE agent less Jonathan Ross than three weeks earlier on January 7.
Luntz urged the White House to be “compassionate and understanding and find some other way other than shooting people to resolve the situation that we face right now.”
“We need to focus on that as we as we go forward, so that we don't create another Minneapolis in another city,” Luntz said.
Moreover, Luntz argued that “Americans want to hear Republicans and Democrats sitting down in the same room at the same time and coming to some sort of consensus,” but warned politicians are “trying to escalate … [to] impact the midterm elections.”
“And that's exactly what should not be happening,” Luntz said. “There needs to be people out there who are saying that our democracy is under threat, that we're seeing the breakdown of civil society in too many places, that people are now in jeopardy for their safety and their health and their security, and that we have to come together in some sort of alliance.”
Luntz then accused Democrats of never crediting Trump “for doing anything,” while noting that the president “will behave the same way.”
“We don't want another government shutdown. We don't want Washington to show that it cannot work. And we don't want Minneapolis to happen in another great American city.”
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