Whit Ayres’ comments in The Christian Science Monitor on congressional votes to stop President Trump’s emergency declaration: “There’s a real tension here,” says Whit Ayres, a longtime GOP pollster, whose clients include Sens. Marco Rubio (R) of Florida and Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee. “We’ve never had, to my knowledge, a president ask Congress to...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill regarding Republicans and health care: “Health care is such a significant part of our economy and the challenges are growing so great with the retirement of the baby boomers and the disruption brought about by ObamaCare that you can’t just cede a critically important issue to the other side,”...
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...
Dan Judy’s comments to CNBC on the “Kavanaugh effect” in the midterm elections: Dan Judy, Republican pollster and vice president at North Star Opinion, said, “The fight over Justice Kavanaugh brought the stakes of this election into stark relief, and helped get Republicans motivated behind Senate candidates in ways they weren’t before.” Judy added that...
Whit Ayres’ comment in The New York Times on President Trump’s appeal to base voters in the midterm elections: Mr. Trump, who promised after his victory in 2016 to be a president for “all Americans,” has been fixated this year on visiting states that were critical to his Electoral College win and doubling down on...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic on President Trump’s focus during the midterms: Trump’s closing emphasis on culture may, in fact, represent a kind of triage for the GOP that effectively concedes large suburban losses in the House, but tries to protect more rural and blue-collar districts, as well as GOP Senate candidates in states...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Los Angeles Times regarding partisan views of the Kavanaugh hearings: “Like so many events today, people view this through their partisan filters to reinforce what they already think,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “The main difference we’ve seen since the Kavanaugh hearings is an increase in Republican enthusiasm. It...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding diversity among GOP nominees and office holders: Whit Ayres, a prominent Republican pollster who wrote a book called “2016 and Beyond: How Republicans Can Elect a President in a New America,” said that while the party could benefit from more minority candidates, this election cycle could...
Whit Ayres’s comments in The Los Angeles Times on the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings: “It’s depressing watching this because both of these people have been seriously and permanently damaged,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who has worked with one of the main conservative groups backing Kavanaugh’s confirmation. “It reminds me of a Shakespearean tragedy, where...
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Whit Ayres’ comments to the Associated Press on the Tennessee Senate contest: “A lot of conservatives in Tennessee really like Phil Bredesen and really don’t want (New York Democratic Sen.) Chuck Schumer to be majority leader,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “How they wrestle with that tension likely determines the outcome of the Senate...
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