Whit Ayres’ comments to NPR on the potential electoral effects of a government shutdown: “The government shutdown in October 2013 gave the Republican Party a huge hit from which it took more than a year to recover,” said veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres. “The drop in the Republican Party’s favorable rating was dramatic. We were...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico on the potential Ohio candidacy of CFPB head Richard Cordray: “Ohio is still a swing state,” Republican pollster Whit Ayres said. “A number of Ohio counties swung sharply from Barack Obama to Donald Trump, but the fact that they had voted for Barack Obama in 2012 and probably 2008 means...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding the apparent contradiction between Trump supporters and Republicans regarding health care: “This is a function of Donald Trump engineering a takeover of the Republican Party,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster. “It was takeover more than assimilation, and this is the eminently predictable result.” To...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill on the “wiretapping” claims of President Trump and reactions of Republican lawmakers: “The reason I think you are seeing a little more pushback is that he made those [initial] claims, essentially counting on Congress to find the evidence,” said Dan Judy, a GOP strategist who worked with the 2016...
Whit Ayres’ comments in the Los Angeles Times on the current political environment and President Trump: “Rather than voters deciding what they think about abortion or guns or Russia and finding a candidate who fits those views, instead they’re settling on a candidate they like for whatever reason and adopting that candidate’s political views as...
Dan Judy, February 11
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Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill regarding the first month of Donald Trump’s presidency: Dan Judy, a GOP strategist whose firm worked for the presidential campaign of Trump’s primary rival Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) last year, noted that Republicans on Capitol Hill “have been watching this administration very carefully. Many of them were not supporters...
Whit Ayres’ column in US News on the challenges facing Republicans: Providence has provided Republicans with an unexpected opportunity to accomplish goals many have wanted for years, by delivering control of both the presidency and Congress to the GOP. But our 2016 success should not blind us to the long-term challenges facing the party. President-elect...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Wall Street Journal regarding the presidential election and race: “Trump switched white voters in key states who were blue-collar primarily—coal counties, manufacturing counties,” the Republican strategist Whit Ayres told me this week. “These are blue-collar whites who voted for Barack Obama. And that’s a very uncomfortable thing to admit by...
Whit Ayres’ comments to WBUR’s Here and Now show on the incumbency effect as it relates to 2016 polling: “There’s a well-established principle in polling, with incumbents running for re-election, that what you see is what you get. In other words, if you’re at 48 as an incumbent, and your opponent is 45, we will...
Dan Judy appeared on WBUR’s show On Point to talk about polling and the 2016 presidential election. http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/11/09/election-2016-the-results Dan’s comments start at the 28 minute mark.
