Whit Ayres spoke with Time magazine about the potential for a government shutdown: When the government shut down in 2013, the GOP’s favorable rating sank and it took the entire year to recover, says Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist and pollster. “Republicans always seem to take the hit during government shutdowns,” Ayres says. “So I’m...
Whit Ayres’ comments to ABC News regarding Donald Trump’s comeback victory: Key to Trump’s political staying power, strategists on both sides of the aisle said, is the way he’s managed to reorient the GOP’s image from “Country Club Republicans” to the party of the working class despite being a billionaire himself and despite some of...
Whit Ayres’ discussed polling accuracy in an op-ed for US News: Polling throughout the race also gave us insights into the broader outlines of the contest, from the big picture to the importance of various issues. All U.S. presidential elections are referenda on the incumbent administration in some way, and 2024 was no different. President...
Whit Ayres was cited by E.J. Dionne in his column exploring Donald Trump’s victory: The facts were part of a slide that Republican pollster Whit Ayres regularly included in his pre-election presentations. Ayres would contrast the average inflation rate during Trump’s and Joe Biden’s presidencies (1 percent vs. 5 percent); interest rates (3 percent under...
Whit Ayres joined James Carville and Al Hunt on their Politics War Room podcast to talk about the state of the race in the last week: https://t.co/mr49WiDwhs
However, the Republican pollster Whit Ayres told me that he is seeing the same divergence between slipping non-white support and steady white backing for Harris in his surveys—and he sees good reasons for that pattern potentially persisting through Election Day. “The Hispanic and African American weakness [for Harris] is a function of a memory of...
Whit Ayres spoke with The Morning Dispatch newsletter about polling and weighting results: Whit Ayres, the president of North Star Research, told TMD that any adjustments, whether based on class, party, or previous vote, that try to account for these voters are necessarily unproven. “There’s no question that a nonresponse bias, which is simply a...
Whit Ayres spoke with The Hill regarding false claims about the hurricane response: “The most effective messages are those that have the benefit of being true. When you have Republicans directly [contradicting] Trump’s argument, like Gov. Kemp, all it does is reinforce the people who are already on his side and doesn’t persuade anyone else...
Whit Ayres’ comments to NBC News regarding the political affects of handling, or mishandling, natural disasters: “These storms are make-or-break events for elected leaders when a disaster strikes,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “When the election is down to seven swing states that are essentially tied at the moment, and several of those swing...
Whit Ayres’ comments to ABC News about the Jack Smith filing: “It reinforces what people already believe,” Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster, said about the Smith filing. “Democracy is one of the top issues for Democrats, but not for Republicans. And so it’ll simply fortify their belief that Trump is a threat to democracy,...
