Interview with Brent Buchanan - President & Founder, Travel Snob, pollster and messaging strategist

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I next, guys, I think that Donald Trump's resilient,
especially when it comes to Kamala. Harris's name is Brett Buchanan,
President and founder of travel snob, Polster and messaging strategist.
He's got his figures in a lot of things. So Brett,
what is it you think that makes Trump so resilient?

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Well, first off, Trump's pretty defined. I mean, go walk
down the street and find somebody who doesn't have a
strong opinion one way or the other of Donald Trump.
And one thing that you're looking for in an election
is resiliency and strength within your own base, because elections
are really no longer about persuasion. They're about persuasion to
turn out. And Donald Trump really has his finger on

(00:42):
the pulse of what people who are willing to vote
for him want to hear, which is why, for example,
you may see him say, well, the economy is not
that big of a deal, but we've got to talk
about these rising prices. And that's because higher educated folks
care about the economy, lower educated folks care about the
cost to living, and lower educated folks who are now

(01:02):
the basic the Republican Party. So this is why you've
seen as you've seen Kamala's image, her favorability change, and
her ballot share change. That Trump has maintained a strong
ballot share in spite of that. It's not like he's dropped.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, this whole thing about la la la la lah
in the propaganda and all sing kumbai Ah, you know,
coming out of the Democrats as opposed to what Americans
are really living. I mean, ultimately, how long can you
pull the wool over everybody's eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well, I spent most of my life in Alabama. I
learned a wonderful thing early on in my political career,
and that is cock of the walk today, Southern destrict tomorrow.
So when somebody goes up fast, it means they can
come down just as rapidly. You don't want to have
this kind of rapid assent in your numbers because it
means they're unsustainable.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
Yeah, I wonder too. You know, we're just out kind
of finding out some of her policies. And on Friday
there was a policy drop. Course they waited for Friday
for that for a policy drop to talk about price
price fixing, price gouging. She's talking about fixing prices in
the grocery stores. I'm sure, there's a segment, the socialist
segment of the population that sounds great too, but I
would think there's a rather significant amount of obviously conservatives, moderates,

(02:16):
and maybe conservative Democrats who would be scared to death
by that kind of a message.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Well, it sounds pretty darn communist if you ask me,
and I think that if you look at the betting
markets on political whins after she said that, she dropped
significantly in the future betting markets, and I think it's
because her very first policy that comes out is essentially communism.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
And raising minimum wage federally, which really ultimately affects everybody
all across America. It's not just federal jobs, it's independent
contractors who do jobs for federal I mean big corporations
is a mess.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Well, I was in the Miami Airport on Sunday and
there was a wheelchair pushing itself through the airport as
a test, and my kids said, what's the person going
to do whose job was to push that wheelchair? I said, well,
when you raise the minimum wage, people come up with
ways to get rid of workers. And I think when
the more instances we see this of you know, McDonald's

(03:21):
ordering stations instead of McDonald's team members, is that people
are going to start to realize that this eats up
the lower class worse than anybody else.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well, they're certainly the ones who are suffering through all
the inflation problems. Brent, Thank you. Brent Buchanan, President and
founder of Travel Snob. He's a bolster in strategy or
messaging strategist, they should say,