Whit Ayres’ comments in The Wall Street Journal regarding factions in the Republican party: “Both Sens. Corker and Flake have played important roles in the governing-conservative part of the Republican Party,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster. “Losing them is a major problem for those of us who want a center-right coalition to function...
Jon McHenry’s comments in The Hill on the importance of White House leadership in the tax reform effort: “You have to have a White House that’s engaged in the issue and is able to show with facts and figures that no, this is actually going to help the middle class,” said Jon McHenry, vice president...
Whit Ayres’ comments in USA Today regarding President Trump and Senate Republican leaders: Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster, said he’s seen “nothing in my career that has approached this level of internecine warfare.” “Everybody’s frustrated,” he said. “The president is frustrated. Senators and congressmen are frustrated. It seems to be very difficult to develop...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill regarding presidential leadership in legislative battles: “He came into office, really, as a Republican in name only. He has no consistent ideology, no real policy proposals — other than building a wall, which is obviously not going to happen,” said Dan Judy, a GOP strategist who worked on Sen....
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Washington Post regarding Donald Trump’s effect on Republican primaries: Moore is now 70 years old and was twice suspended as the chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court for refusing to obey laws he saw as at odds with his religious beliefs. Normally all this would be career-ending. But that...
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Whit Ayres’ comments in McClatchy Newspapers (featured here in The Sacramento Bee) regarding the Alabama Senate primary: “It helps to remember that Alabama is its own brand in many ways, and what happens in Alabama may not tell us a lot about what happens in a closer swing state, like Arizona or Nevada,” said veteran...
Whit Ayres’ comments to the Associated Press regarding the Alabama primary runoff results: Republican pollster Whit Ayres, who has worked for Senate campaigns across the country, said Trump learns the same lesson his predecessor, Barack Obama, learned watching Democrats lose control of Congress and then seeing Trump defeat his chosen successor, Hillary Clinton. “You can’t...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Boston Globe regarding President Trump and congressional Republicans: “I think most of the Republicans in the Congress realize that they are going to have to take the ball and run with it if they are going to get anything accomplished,” says pollster and consultant Whit Ayres, who has advised Senators...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill regarding the differences in reactions between Senators and House members: But in general, Trump has stronger support in the House, where GOP lawmakers tend to represent more conservative constituencies. “Senators clearly are more visible elected officials, and almost all of them have more heterogeneous constituencies than House members. They...
Jon McHenry’s comments in The Hill regarding tax reform messaging: GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration often spend a considerable amount of time discussing how tax reform will boost economic growth and business competitiveness. Strategists suggested that it’s important for Republicans to explain how more economic growth directly affects them, and some argued that lawmakers...
