Whit Ayres’ comments to The Wall Street Journal regarding presidential mandates: While Trump and his aides claim a voter mandate—the president won all seven swing states—the U.S. remains divided. Trump risks reading too much into his electoral victory, GOP pollster Whit Ayres said, and the president should keep in mind the fate of his predecessor....
“Donald Trump is sui generis.”
Political ClimateTrumpWhit AyresJanuary 20, 2025
Whit Ayres’ comments to NBC News: “Let’s face it. Donald Trump is sui generis,” Ayres said. “There’s no one out there like him. No one with his mix of bravado, charisma, political instincts and entertainment value on the horizon in either party. It’s hard to imagine Trumpism without Donald Trump.” To read the full article,...
“Republicans always seem to take the hit during government shutdowns.”
Government SpendingPolitical ClimateRepublicansWhit AyresDecember 19, 2024
Whit Ayres spoke with Time magazine about the potential for a government shutdown: When the government shut down in 2013, the GOP’s favorable rating sank and it took the entire year to recover, says Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist and pollster. “Republicans always seem to take the hit during government shutdowns,” Ayres says. “So I’m...
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...
Whit Ayres was cited by E.J. Dionne in his column exploring Donald Trump’s victory: The facts were part of a slide that Republican pollster Whit Ayres regularly included in his pre-election presentations. Ayres would contrast the average inflation rate during Trump’s and Joe Biden’s presidencies (1 percent vs. 5 percent); interest rates (3 percent under...
Rallies Beyond the Swing States
Jon McHenryPolitical ClimatePresidential ContestSwing StatesNovember 4, 2024
Jon McHenry spoke with Franco Ordoñez with NPR to discuss Donald Trump’s rallies outside the swing states: https://www.npr.org/2024/11/03/nx-s1-5175599/trump-is-choosing-to-campaign-in-blue-states-will-the-risk-pay-off
“There’s really a small number in most political campaigns of voters who are truly persuadable.”
Dan JudyPolitical ClimatePresidential ContestOctober 29, 2024
Dan Judy’s comments in The Atlantic about persuadable voters: If people are tuning out, it might not matter much for the election results. Most people already know whom they’re going to vote for; the universe of truly undecided voters is very small—likely less than 15 percent of the electorate. “The vast, vast, vast majority of...
“The released court filing reinforces what people already believe.”
Political ClimatePresidential PrimariesTrumpWhit AyresOctober 7, 2024
Whit Ayres’ comments to ABC News about the Jack Smith filing: “It reinforces what people already believe,” Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster, said about the Smith filing. “Democracy is one of the top issues for Democrats, but not for Republicans. And so it’ll simply fortify their belief that Trump is a threat to democracy,...
“Health care is important as part of the cost of living issue.”
Dan JudyHealth CarePolitical ClimatePresidential ContestSeptember 12, 2024
Dan Judy’s comments the The New York Times regarding the importance of health care in the 2024 election: “Health care is still very important for people,” said Dan Judy, an analyst at North Star Opinion Research, a Republican polling firm. “But it’s important as part of a broader economic and inflation and cost of living...
Jon McHenry’s comments in The Boston Globe regarding Vice President Kamala Harris’ claims to have helped borrowers as California Attorney General: But there’s still risk for Harris given mortgage rates are higher now than they were a few years ago under Trump, said Republican pollster Jon McHenry. “The big counterpunch, and I think it would...
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