This is not the news that Vice President Kamala Harris wanted to hear.

Pollster Frank Luntz says that her honeymoon phase is done with the contest for the presidency still neck and neck and now she has to have a real campaign and real answers.

He appeared on “CNN News Central” where he started with some harsh words for former President Donald Trump.

“I want to emphasize this to every viewer who thinks I‘m anti-Trump or anti-Harris, if you talk about things that voters don‘t care about, they‘re not going to vote for you. Donald Trump is already talking about this election being stolen. You can’t steal something that you gave away,” the pollster said.

“I’ve never seen the candidates [sic] more missed the mark than Trump has. His advertising is exceptional, it‘s very explicit and very clear,” he said. “But in terms of he himself, he‘s all over the map and he deserves the fact that he’s been falling.”

But just as supporters of the vice president may have been taking comfort in his words he hit them with reality.

“But again, I have to give you one caveat and then I‘ll be quiet. He‘s actually stopped falling. Even though they had a pretty strong convention last week, it looks like the Harris boomlet has reached its peak — with her having roughly a three point advantage,” he said. “I remind you that that was the advantage that Hillary Clinton had over Donald Trump on Election Day 2016 and he still beat her in the electoral college. This election is way too close to call.”

Some recent polling, like that of Nate Silver, shows the former president with an advantage in the Electoral College after the DNC convention.

And Karl Rove, an adviser to then-President George W. Bush, cautioned that the optimism surrounding Harris’s campaign might be misplaced, pointing out that she is currently polling worse than Biden did at this point in 2020 and Clinton did in 2016.