Whit Ayres appeared on Voice of America to discuss the importance of Florida in President Trump’s reelection campaign:
Whit Ayres appeared on Voice of America to discuss the importance of Florida in President Trump’s reelection campaign:
Whit Ayres appeared on WBUR’s show On Point to discuss the beginning of President Trump’s reelection campaign.
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Daily Caller regarding the President and the economy: “A normal president with these economic numbers would have job approval somewhere in the vicinity of 60 percent,” according to Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “But Donald Trump is a nontraditional president, and he has, at least at this point, severed the traditional...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic regarding voting patterns in the South: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who works extensively across the South, says that white women, “particularly suburban white women … have been absolutely critical” to the GOP’s strength in states approving the abortion bans. Election Day exit polls showed that most white women...
Whit Ayres’ comments to Bloomberg on Republican senators’ influence over policy and nominees: “There’s no mileage in Republican senators picking public fights with President Trump, but they will continue to exert their own will privately and behind the scenes, just as they have done with the Federal Reserve nominees,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican consultant...
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 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...
Whit Ayres’s comments in The Hill regarding the 2020 electoral environment: “The 2018 Senate map was the most favorable map for Republicans in our lifetime, so by comparison any other map is going to be more competitive,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. But Ayres warned that it’s far too early to predict the political...