Whit Ayres’ comments to Ron Brownstein of CNN regarding President Trump’s ability to appeal beyond his base and win reelection in 2020: Absent a major world event, or a dramatic change in the economy, few in either party expect those hardened patterns to shift much by the 2020 election. Republican pollster Whit Ayres offered a...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Christian Science Monitor regarding President Trump’s options on immigration policy: Trump could potentially even be a “Nixon in China” when it comes to immigration, says GOP pollster Whit Ayres. President Richard Nixon was able to visit China in 1972 because of his strong anti-communist stance. Immigration has dogged American presidents...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill regarding Republicans and health care: “Health care is such a significant part of our economy and the challenges are growing so great with the retirement of the baby boomers and the disruption brought about by ObamaCare that you can’t just cede a critically important issue to the other side,”...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Washington Post on the 2020 presidential election: Some Republican pollsters have also been watching the president’s tactics with concern, noting that there is little evidence he has grown his electoral coalition after the 2016 election, when he won the White House despite losing the popular vote. “The problem is that...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill on the possibility of a government shutdown: “We keep having these debates over a shutdown, it seems, every year or two,” said GOP strategist Dan Judy. “There is a chunk of the party that says, ‘This time will be different’. And it never works.” Judy added that any move...
Whit Ayres’s comments in The Hill regarding the 2020 electoral environment: “The 2018 Senate map was the most favorable map for Republicans in our lifetime, so by comparison any other map is going to be more competitive,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. But Ayres warned that it’s far too early to predict the political...
Dan Judy’s comments to CNBC on the “Kavanaugh effect” in the midterm elections: Dan Judy, Republican pollster and vice president at North Star Opinion, said, “The fight over Justice Kavanaugh brought the stakes of this election into stark relief, and helped get Republicans motivated behind Senate candidates in ways they weren’t before.” Judy added that...
Whit Ayres’ comment in The New York Times on President Trump’s appeal to base voters in the midterm elections: Mr. Trump, who promised after his victory in 2016 to be a president for “all Americans,” has been fixated this year on visiting states that were critical to his Electoral College win and doubling down on...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic on President Trump’s focus during the midterms: Trump’s closing emphasis on culture may, in fact, represent a kind of triage for the GOP that effectively concedes large suburban losses in the House, but tries to protect more rural and blue-collar districts, as well as GOP Senate candidates in states...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Los Angeles Times regarding partisan views of the Kavanaugh hearings: “Like so many events today, people view this through their partisan filters to reinforce what they already think,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “The main difference we’ve seen since the Kavanaugh hearings is an increase in Republican enthusiasm. It...
