Whit Ayres’ comments on the Democratic primary, as seen on FOX Nation: Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Whit Ayres’ comments on the Democratic primary, as seen on FOX Nation: Watch the latest video at foxnews.com
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding the potential for Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s presidential bid: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, agreed that Mr. Bloomberg should not be dismissed. “By any traditional measure, it’s a pipe dream, but if we learned anything in 2016 it’s that just because something has never happened before doesn’t...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times on the electability of Elizabeth Warren: Whit Ayres, president of North Star Opinion Research, was outspoken: “Elizabeth Warren is God’s gift to Donald Trump and Republican candidates.” “Well-educated suburban voters, especially women,” Ayres continued, “are uncomfortable with President Trump,” but, he added, “they are not going to...
Whit Ayres’ comments to the Associated Press on voting trends in Georgia: “Only in the event of a landslide nationally does Donald Trump lose Georgia,” said GOP pollster Whit Ayres, pointing to Trump’s 5 percentage point win in Georgia in 2016. Arizona, Ayres said, is the likelier Sun Belt state to flip to Democrats, while...
From Whit Ayres’ op-ed in The Wall Street Journal on November 18: As the nation tumbles toward the 2020 presidential elections, it seems also on course for its second presidential impeachment in a little more than two decades. It all looks like so much chaos, but our likely path forward is illuminated by polls about...
Whit Ayres’s comments in The Atlantic regarding Donald Trump’s appeal to the coalition that elected him in 2016: A verity of American politics is that the game is about addition. A successful candidate preserves his core support and builds out. Yet more than a year before the 2020 election, Trump has shown no appetite for...
Whit Ayres joined Dan Runde on his CSIS Building the Future podcast to discuss demographic change, the future of the Republican party, and issues for the 2020 election. You can listen to part one here. You can listen to part two here.
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Washington Post on the gap between President Trump’s approval rating and views of the economy: Yet the president hasn’t enjoyed a similar lift in his numbers. It’s evidence, Republican pollster Whit Ayres says, that voters are “evaluating Trump’s job approval based on his conduct and behavior in office rather than...
Whit Ayres’ comments in Roll Call regarding President Trump’s reelection strategy: “Talking about Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is another way of saying, ‘Do you want to go back to the way things were?’” said Whit Ayers, a GOP consultant to clients such as Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both Trump critics-turned-allies. “And for his base —...
Whit Ayres appeared on Voice of America to discuss the importance of Florida in President Trump’s reelection campaign: