Political Consultant Says Colorado Supreme Court Ruling Will Make Trump’s ‘Numbers Rise’

A longtime pollster claimed that the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot will backfire on Democrats. “Colorado has just proven Trump’s theory true that he’s the victim of political persecution[.] His poll numbers won’t drop. On the contrary, they will rise,” posted Frank Luntz, who worked as a Republican pollster and consultant. He added that the former president “is now even more likely to win next November” after the ruling. Mr. Luntz—who has been criticized in the past for his 2016 prediction that Hillary Clinton would win—noted that the former president’s poll numbers have only gone up after he was indicted four separate times this year. The RealClearPolitics national average of polls shows he has 63 percent support, outpacing the No. 2 candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley by more than 50 percentage points each....