“Trump misplaced by 7 million votes [in 2020],” Stevens informed MSNBC’s Ali Vitali. “He wants new prospects. What’s he doing to draw new prospects?”
Stevens mentioned Trump has no new imaginative and prescient, promise or coverage that brings new voters, which is why he’s “caught” at about 46 p.c in polls, which is what he had in his shedding 2020 marketing campaign.
“Even when it was versus Biden after that unhealthy debate, he nonetheless had hassle shifting north of 47 p.c,” he mentioned.
Stevens ― who labored on Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential marketing campaign and is now a part of the anti-Trump Republican group the Lincoln Challenge ― mentioned the election might nonetheless be very shut ultimately.
“I feel the extra seemingly situation is that this race is gonna be shut till possibly Oct. twentieth, twenty fifth, after which I simply assume the underside’s gonna begin to drop out for Trump as a result of he’s not buying new voters,” he mentioned. “That is what occurred to Carter in ’80, and I feel there’s a whole lot of similarities right here.”
Politics, he mentioned, requires addition ― however Trump isn’t doing something so as to add new voters.
See extra of his dialog with Vitali beneath: