Whit Ayres’ comments in the Financial Times on the $1.9T Democratic stimulus bill: “The package is popular and widely supported, and the Republican objections to it have not been persuasive enough or consistent enough to do the bill any real damage at this point,” said Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster. “It is challenging, obviously,”...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding Hispanic voting patterns: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, whose firm, North Star Opinion Research, has studied Hispanic partisan allegiance, wrote in an email that Latinos are far more flexible in their voting than African-Americans: “As a general rule, about 50 percent of Hispanics vote fairly consistently...
Whit Ayres in The New York Times on the Republican Party and working-class voters: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster whose clients have included Mr. Rubio, was critical of Democrats for not seeking a compromise on the stimulus after a group of G.O.P. senators offered a smaller package. “Seven Republican senators voted to convict a president of their...
Whit Ayres’ comments to Politico on the 2021 CPAC meeting in Orlando: “Donald Trump remains the leader of the populist wing of the party, which he grew into a dominant force in Republican primaries, although never a majority force in the country,” said Whit Ayres, the longtime Republican pollster. “But because Trump dominates the populist...
Whit Ayres’ comments in USA Today about CPAC: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster and consultant, sees the split as one between a “pro-governing” wing of the party and the “pro-populist” wing. The populists, he said, are more interested in being anti-establishment, anti-immigrant, and anti-media. Trump fused those people into a force that won the Electoral College in 2016,...
Whit Ayres, February 26
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Whit Ayres’ comments in Bloomberg about a failure of bipartisanship: “Seven Republican senators just voted to convict a president of their own party of impeachable offenses — if you can’t get a single one of those Republicans, you are not trying,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster, referring to Trump’s impeachment trial this month....
Whit Ayres’ comments to Newsweek on Florida’s COVID response and Governor Ron DeSantis’ approval ratings: Whit Ayres, the founder of North Star Opinion Research, counts DeSantis among the politicians for whom his company has provided messaging advice. DeSantis’ handling of the pandemic “appears to be at least as effective if not more effective” than other...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding Republican senators voting to convict President Trump of impeachment charges: “Two are retiring, and three are not up until 2026, and who knows what the world will look like five years from now,” said Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster. “It looked pretty different five years...
Whit Ayres, February 10
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Whit Ayres appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered to discuss polling and President Trump’s impeachment trial: https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/966498568/how-the-polls-have-differed-between-trumps-1st-and-2nd-impeachment-trials
Whit Ayres’ comments to the Los Angeles Times about GOP factions: The main battlefield in the war is likely to become the ballot box, veteran Republican strategist Whit Ayres told me. “The party is split between a governing faction and a populist faction,” he said. “The populist faction was there before Trump. They aren’t going...
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