Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic on President Trump’s statements regarding California: “It’s a freebie for Trump” that energizes his base, says the veteran Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “It’s not like California’s going to turn around and vote Republican anytime in the future. This is part of the messaging that Republicans have used for years...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico regarding voters’ views of President Trump and impeachment: “People have made up their minds on Trump. It would take a momentous event to change enough minds to alter his job approval rating away from the average of 43 or 44 percent,” said Whit Ayres, founder and president of North Star...
Whit Ayres’ comments to the Associated Press on Republican office holders and gun control laws: “Republicans’ backs are already against the wall among suburban voters, particularly college-educated women,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican consultant. “And the inability of our political system to pass what most Americans see as commonsense reforms related to gun violence only...
Whit Ayres’s comments in the Los Angeles Times regarding President Trump’s approach on trade: Republican pollster Whit Ayres said trade and trade agreements were significant factors for voters who switched from backing President Obama in 2012 to Trump in 2016, especially in the upper Midwest. “He has certainly elevated the importance of the issue,” Ayres...
Whit Ayres’s comments to CNBC regarding the future diversity of the Republican party: Whit Ayres, founder and president of North Star Opinion Research, says a diverse Republican Party lies ahead, despite its current state. Ayres worked for Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign in 2016. “We had a rally in the South Carolina primary in Charleston,...
Whit Ayres’s comments in The Washington Post about President Trump’s appeal to his base: “It’s part and parcel of his long-running effort to energize his base at the expense of those who were not for him before and who are not for him today,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “Part of his appeal to...
Whit Ayres’s comments in The Atlantic regarding Donald Trump’s appeal to the coalition that elected him in 2016: A verity of American politics is that the game is about addition. A successful candidate preserves his core support and builds out. Yet more than a year before the 2020 election, Trump has shown no appetite for...
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’ comments in The Washington Post on the gap between President Trump’s approval rating and views of the economy: Yet the president hasn’t enjoyed a similar lift in his numbers. It’s evidence, Republican pollster Whit Ayres says, that voters are “evaluating Trump’s job approval based on his conduct and behavior in office rather than...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Roll Call regarding President Trump’s reelection strategy: “Talking about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is another way of saying, ‘Do you want to go back to the way things were?’” said Whit Ayers, a GOP consultant to clients such as Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Trump critics-turned-allies. “And for his base —...
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