The American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) recognized Whit Ayres’ 35-year career as a Republican political consultant by inducting him into their Hall of Fame at the Capitol Hilton on April 18, 2024. The event was attended by over 300 political consultants and AAPC members. Ayres has served as a pollster, mentor, and trusted advisor...
Whit Ayres joined Robert Gibbs and Jonathan Martin on the Hacks on Tap podcast this week: https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8491576/embed?v=202301
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Wall Street Journal regarding President Trump’s position on abortion: “I don’t know that anything will take the attention off the abortion issue given some of the extremely restrictive bills that have been passed,” said GOP consultant Whit Ayres, who called Trump’s position a politically smart one. “But it is the...
Whit Ayres’ comments to Politico about politics and higher education: Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster, suggested that the topic’s resonance with voters was a symbol of Republicans’ growing frustration with elite higher education. “That really was the culmination point of a long period of Republican suspicion about the mindset of higher education,” he said...
Whit Ayres’ comments to ABC News on Republican office holders wrestling with abortion issues: “The states have just started wrestling with one of the most intractable issues in American politics. And some state legislatures are going to overreach, and some state judicial rulings will overreach, and then they’ll get corrected,” GOP consultant Whit Ayres said....
Jon McHenry appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered to discuss the U.S. stance toward Israel: Republican pollster Jon McHenry says there may be an opportunity for Trump to present a more vigorous foreign policy with an ally – and win back some more traditional Republican voters he lost during the primaries. “That may actually be...
Whit Ayres’ comments to Vox on voters’ perceptions of the economy: “The fundamental problem for Biden and the Democrats is that while the rate of inflation is down, it’s not going backwards,” GOP pollster Whit Ayres said. “It’s hard to persuade people that things are better.” … “The general perception is that the economy was...
Whit Ayres’ comments to The Washington Post about the 2024 general election campaign: Reelection campaigns generally favor the incumbent. But Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster and no friend of Trump, sees Biden as the clear underdog. He cites public dissatisfaction with the overall direction of the country, and notes that Trump is seen as more...
Whit Ayres’ comments to The Washington Post regarding Donald Trump’s appeal to working class voters: On the flip side, Republican pollster Whit Ayres said in an interview, Trump has bundled together all the resentments felt by voters experiencing both economic decline and cultural estrangement. “His message is anti-expertise, anti-immigration, anti-intellectual, anti-media and anti-establishment at a...
Whit Ayres’ comments to CNN regarding Donald Trump’s position as a quasi-incumbent: Veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayres said the primaries have shown that Republican voters are viewing Trump, in effect, as an incumbent president to a greater extent than the other candidates expected. Trump is trying to become the first defeated incumbent to win a...
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