Whit Ayres’ comments to ABC News regarding Donald Trump’s comeback victory: Key to Trump’s political staying power, strategists on both sides of the aisle said, is the way he’s managed to reorient the GOP’s image from “Country Club Republicans” to the party of the working class despite being a billionaire himself and despite some of...
However, the Republican pollster Whit Ayres told me that he is seeing the same divergence between slipping non-white support and steady white backing for Harris in his surveys—and he sees good reasons for that pattern potentially persisting through Election Day. “The Hispanic and African American weakness [for Harris] is a function of a memory of...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding Hispanic voting patterns: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, whose firm, North Star Opinion Research, has studied Hispanic partisan allegiance, wrote in an email that Latinos are far more flexible in their voting than African-Americans: “As a general rule, about 50 percent of Hispanics vote fairly consistently...
Whit Ayres’ comments in the New Statesman about changing demographics and their electoral impact in Arizona and Texas: “The narrative [that the states will swing this year] persists because of the constantly changing demographics of the Sun Belt,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster at North Star Opinion Research. In particular, as Ben Walker wrote elsewhere in the New...
Whit Ayres’ comments in USA Today about the Trump campaign’s television buying strategy: Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist who has worked for Sens. Marco Rubio, Lamar Alexander and Lindsey Graham, said the Trump campaign’s decision to make early television pushes in Georgia, Iowa and Ohio was “smart” and reflects that more states are up for grabs than 2016. “We...
Whit Ayres’ comments to McClatchy on demographic changes in Texas: “The mix of voters in Texas is going exactly the way that demographic trends have predicted, and as long as Republicans continue to perform poorly with nonwhite voters, it appears it will continue,” said Whit Ayres, a veteran pollster and analyst for Republican candidates across...
Whit Ayres joined Dan Runde on his CSIS Building the Future podcast to discuss demographic change, the future of the Republican party, and issues for the 2020 election. You can listen to part one here. You can listen to part two here.
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 New York Times regarding diversity among GOP nominees and office holders: Whit Ayres, a prominent Republican pollster who wrote a book called “2016 and Beyond: How Republicans Can Elect a President in a New America,” said that while the party could benefit from more minority candidates, this election cycle could...
Whit Ayres’ comments to CNN regarding Donald Trump and the Hispanic vote: It’s exactly why Trump’s statements like, “we have some bad hombres here and we’re gonna get them out,” at the final presidential debate have GOP pollster Whit Ayres shaking his head. “He started off his campaign with his announcement calling Mexicans rapists and...
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