Whit Ayres’ comments about ticket splitting and voters’ decisions in Governing: Ayres, the GOP consultant, says that citizens make different calculations when voting for the Senate — where they’re choosing someone who will primarily just cast votes — than governor, where they’re electing someone with real decision-making authority. “Governors make life and death decisions, whether...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Politico on ticket-splitting and candidate quality: “In historical terms it may be low, but [ticket-splitting] was absolutely critical in numerous races this fall,” Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster for more than 30 years, said in an interview. “Voters made a lot of judgments about the quality of candidates nominated, and that’s...
Whit Ayres comments in the Associated Press (as printed in The Washington Post) regarding the House GOP’s legislative priorities: Whit Ayres, a GOP political consultant, said Republicans should focus on inflation, crime and border security in the majority, but fears they will overreach once again. “If past is prologue, the small House majority will govern...
Whit Ayres’ comments to the Associated Press regarding election denialism and Republican election results: “It turns out that trying to overturn an election is not wildly popular with the American people,” said Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster. That even extends to Arizona, Ayres added, where a prominent former television newscaster-turned-election-conspiracy-theorist, Kari Lake, remains in...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Washington Post about former President Donald Trump and the future of the Republican Party: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, says the party’s electorate can be divided into three key buckets. A small group, roughly 10 percent, are “Never Trumpers,” Republicans who have long and vocally opposed Trump. A far larger...
Whit Ayres’ comments on the midterm elections in The Washington Post: “With inflation at a 40-year high, crime out of control in many cities and our southern borders still porous, coupled with Joe Biden’s job approval in the low 40s, Republicans should have run away with this election,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “It...
Whit Ayres’ comments in STAT News regarding Republican views of elites and experts: “In many ways, doubts about expertise have fed into the whole populist movement, which essentially is … anti-elite, anti-establishment, anti-expertise,” said Whit Ayres, a political consultant with North Star Opinion Research who has advised GOP candidates including DeSantis. “Populism has a real...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New Republic on the national mood and midterm elections: “Republicans should be running away with this election. With [President] Biden’s job approval in the low 40s, with inflation at a 40-year high and not moderating, with crime a serious problem in many cities, and with the border still not under...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic about the effects of polarization: “The difference in policy now between the group that has 51 percent and the group that has 49 percent is so enormous because of the polarization and divergence of the two parties,” the longtime GOP pollster Whit Ayres told me. Such big change resting...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill regarding Ben Sasse leaving the U.S. Senate: “Ben Sasse was one of the people who made the Senate work,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “And there’s a pattern of a lot people who made the Senate work who are leaving the institution, and that’s not good for the country and...
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