Dan Judy’s comments in The Hill on changes in the Republican Party: GOP strategist Dan Judy took a milder tack but shared the same broad concerns, noting how far the GOP has moved over the past 10 years. “Two things are interesting — one is the new people who have been elected, but the other...
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 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 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’ 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...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Newsweek about GOP in-fighting: Whit Ayres, a longstanding GOP pollster and North Star Opinion Research founder, took a similar view. The political consultant said it remained to be seen whether the Republican Party would still be a “viable political force” or make the fatal decision to split into two separate entities....
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Washington Post regarding the future of the Republican party: “January 6 is the opening battle in the war for the soul of the Republican Party,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “The party is now split between the governing wing and the populist wing even more sharply than it was during...
Dan Judy’s comments to Talking Points Memo regarding calls for unity after the attack on the Capitol: Dan Judy, Vice President of North Star Opinion Research, a consultancy for Republican candidates, told TPM that the “unity” pushers can be put in two categories. The first, Republicans who opposed Trump’s rhetoric on election fraud and voted...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Atlantic regarding electoral changes in Georgia: The historical context is that in Georgia, as in most southern states that voted reliably Democratic for the first century after the Civil War, Republicans established their initial beachheads in what were then “white flight” suburbs around Atlanta. Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who...