Whit Ayres, January 7

Whit Ayres’ comments in The Hill on Senator Marco Rubio’s War on Poverty speech:

“If you go back and listen to the speeches Marco Rubio gave when he was a Senate candidate in Florida, expanding access to the American dream was at the core of his message,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who counts Rubio as a client. “It is vitally important, in his mind, to break the cycle of poverty and create additional upward social and economic mobility.”

Ayres put the speech in the context of former President Reagan and former Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), icons who reinvigorated Republican politics by heralding the promise of conservative policies for all economic classes, including the lowest.

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