The election campaign manager Frank Stauss sees Armin Laschet in the "downward vortex" and no prospects for Annalena Baerbock either.
The laughing third is now Olaf Scholz.
Düsseldorf - Where is the Union's shoe pinching before this federal election?
Your Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet comes dangerously close to the K-question Green competitor Annalena Baerbock in current polls, and even the campaign appearance with Elon Musk will probably not bring about the turnaround in popularity for the CDU politician.
Laschet is simply the wrong candidate, several have grumbled who think they know better.
In their opinion, Laschet's CSU colleague Markus Söder would have done better.
Now a prominent political advisor, Frank Stauss in the
Handelsblatt
, shares this opinion
.
He has already advised the SPD and Olaf Scholz.
Bundestag election: election campaign manager attests to Laschet, candidate for Union chancellor, two problems
"With Söder, the Union would be 32 or 35 percent today," Stauss believes in an interview with the Düsseldorf newspaper.
He diagnosed “two big problems” with Laschet.
Firstly, during the election campaign he has so far provided media images that “will catch up with him again and again”.
Keyword: Laschet's laugh after the flood disaster.
Second, Söder.
The Bavarian Prime Minister made no secret of his candidate ambitions.
Stauss attests that Söder is a "professional".
Above all, however, the CSU boss serves the "longing for authority and leadership" that conservatives would currently miss in Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
And now also at Laschet.
Bundestag election: party advisor sees opportunity for Laschet, "if Söder withdraws"
"If Laschet wants to get out of the downward spiral, Söder would have to withdraw, which is unlikely due to his personality structure," as Stauss believes.
The Union is now losing voters to the FDP, the Greens, the Free Voters - and now also to the SPD.
“For a Merkel voter, the path to Olaf Scholz is not far.
Scholz is the best candidate in the ring, ”said Stauss to the
Handelsblatt
.
The Social Democrats would still have a voter potential of more than 30 percent, which they will "of course not" achieve in this federal election.
Federal election 2021: According to Stauss, Baerbock is a "brake block" for the Greens
What about the Greens, whose polls are pretty good?
Here, too, Stauss has doubts about the choice of staff: “(Robert) Habeck would have been the more interesting candidate.
He is different from all the other candidates. ”Baerbock, on the other hand, not only has a“ typical ”political career and“ typical politician speech ”, it is rather“ now a brake block for the Greens, a stopper on the bottle ”.
But also the SPD election campaign is not blameless.
The controversial anti-Laschet video can "sink" the party, he thinks.
Polarization in the election campaign is basically good, but one shouldn't “go overboard”.
(frs)