Whit Ayres’ quoted by msnbc on potential executive action on immigration: “[Executive action] undercuts supporters of immigration reform and emboldens the opponents,” Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who has advocated passing reform to help the GOP win back Latinos, told msnbc. “It’s going to come across as an illegitimate and crassly political move by a desperate...
Whit Ayres’ comments in the Asbury Park Press on Republican candidates efforts with Hispanic voters: “Conservative Republicans can get a significant share of the Hispanic vote provided they reach out aggressively and campaign in Hispanic communities,” Whit Ayres, a GOP pollster, told USA Today in November 2013. “It makes a huge difference when you have...
Jon McHenry’s comments on Republican primaries and immigration reform for Fox News Latino: “Lindsey Graham was able to talk about what the Senate bill actually does,” said Jon McHenry of the Republican pollster Northstar Opinion Research. “He took it out of the context of just amnesty.” “People who run successfully in support of immigration reform...
Whit Ayres’ comments on immigration reform and Republican primary voters in Politico: Pollsters at the briefing, however, say their surveys didn’t find any evidence of greater intensity among immigration reform opponents. And Whit Ayres, one of the pollsters, said Graham was a better test case of how immigration reform plays in a GOP primary —...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the Hispanic vote and GOP prospects in 2014 and 2016 in the Los Angeles Times: In 2012, exit polls show Mitt Romney beat Obama by 20 percentage points among white voters, which made up 72% of the electorate, while losing resoundingly among all other racial groups. In this November’s midterm election,...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Washington Post‘s PlumLine blog regarding immigration reform and electoral trends: GOP pollster Whit Ayres, who favors reform, tells me Republicans should take the two point rise in critical swing states very seriously. “It’s significant,” Ayres says. “Some aspects of the future are difficult to see clearly. The increasing proportion of...
Whit Ayres’ comments for Fox News Latino on Republicans and Hispanic voters: Republican pollster Whit Ayres put it bluntly: “The situation in Texas represents the promise for the Republican Party across the country.” For the full article, please click here.
Whit Ayres’ comments on immigration reform in The Columbus Dispatch: “The system is irretrievably broken and most people, when they look at irretrievably broken systems, try to make them better,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican consultant in Washington. “That’s what the Senate did with their bill — a far-from-perfect bill, but a good-faith effort to...
Whit Ayres’ comments for the Washington Post on immigration reform and Republican politics: “If Republicans wait until 2015 to tackle this issue, that puts a very emotional and controversial issue right in the middle of the Republican presidential selection process,” veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres, a supporter of reform, tells me. “The opportunity for demagoguery...
Dan Judy’s comments for U.S. News and World Report on immigration reform proposals in the House. Dan Judy, a Republican pollster at North Star Opinion Research, says the Cantor plan strikes the right balance for the GOP, which must walk a fine line with immigration reform. While many want to court Latino voters on the...
