Whit Ayres joined Josh Kraushaar’s Against the Grain podcast to discuss Republican strategy in the Trump era: https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/678157/against-the-grain-episode-30-on-ayres?
Whit Ayres joined Josh Kraushaar’s Against the Grain podcast to discuss Republican strategy in the Trump era: https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/678157/against-the-grain-episode-30-on-ayres?
Whit Ayres’ comments in the Los Angeles Times regarding President Trump’s reelection prospects: Indeed, “a normal president with these economic numbers would have job approval somewhere in the vicinity of 60%,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “But Donald Trump is a nontraditional president, and he has, at least at this point, severed the traditional relationship...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding climate change: “A lot of thoughtful Republicans have accepted the reality of climate change and are wrestling with questions of policy,” Whit Ayres, a prominent Republican pollster, said. Mr. Ayres noted that many Republicans had concerns about climate change policies like taxing or regulating coal and...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Christian Science Monitor on congressional votes to stop President Trump’s emergency declaration: “There’s a real tension here,” says Whit Ayres, a longtime GOP pollster, whose clients include Sens. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida and Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee. “We’ve never had, to my knowledge, a president ask Congress to...
Whit Ayres’ comments to Time regarding President Trump and border security: On the issue of the moment, the Feb. 15 spending deadline, one way out would be for Trump to accept a deal that boosts border-security spending without funding a wall. “If he can get a bill enacted that truly does strengthen the border, then...
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...