Pollster warns of impact of Trump victory on Supreme Court

Republican pollster Frank Luntz warned of the impact former President Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election would have on the U.S. Supreme Court.

“The Supreme Court, with the Senate going red and with Trump at this point more than likely to be elected, still not a sure thing, but if he gets elected then he gets the appointment and with the Senate going Republican whomever he wants is going to end up on the Supreme Court,” Luntz said during his Tuesday night appearance on NewsNation.

“That is about as big of an impact as you can have this election evening because there are a couple justices that will probably be retiring in the next year or two,” he added without noting which justices might be retiring soon.

Luntz’s remarks came before Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ) called Pennsylvania, a battleground state, for Trump and ultimately the election itself on early Wednesday for the Republican nominee.

During his first term in the White House, Trump appointed three justices: Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett. With their addition to the bench, Roe. v. Wade was overturned in 2022, ending the federal right to abortion and punting it back to the states.

The pollster argued that with a majority in the Senate, Trump will have an easier time implementing some of his policy proposals.

“If he has the Senate, it becomes easier for him to put forward his economic policies and some of it doesn’t even require a vote of Congress, but if you’re looking for that, that tariff policy is more likely than not to come into play,” Luntz said.

Republicans captured the Senate majority on Tuesday night after spending four years in the minority, DDHQ projected. So far, the GOP has grabbed two seats held by the Democrats: Gov. Jim Justice won the West Virginia race, replacing the retiring Sen. Joe Manchin (I), while GOP candidate Bernie Moreno beat incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio).

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