Whit Ayres’ comments about Secretary Robert F. Kennedy in The Detroit News: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster, warned that it remained to be seen if voters would put aside their views of Kennedy after he spent years sowing doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines, contrary to scientific evidence. “The vast majority of Americans...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding President Trump’s standing in the Republican Party: “Donald Trump has ruled the Republican Party and the Republican base, and he obviously continues to do so,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster. Mr. Ayres pointed to a difference between high-profile defectors such as Tucker Carlson and...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times regarding President Trump’s political standing: “President Trump was re-elected for four reasons,” Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster, told me. “To improve the economy, to bring down inflation, to control illegal immigration and to get away from woke culture. Anything that works against any of those four...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The New York Times about President Trump’s job approval: “He has always been like this,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster. “It all depends upon whether his recent behavior affects his job approval or changes anyone’s opinion about him that they didn’t already have before.” According to Mr. Ayres, the...
Whit Ayres’ comments to Time on incumbent Republicans running for reelection: “The headwinds are always tough for the president’s party in midterms and a lot tougher when the president is polling under 50% approval,” says Whit Ayres, a Republican strategist and pollster. “But they have got to continue to campaign in support of President Trump...
Whit Ayres’ comments to The Washington Post on the economy: Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican consultant specializing in polling, said while people with “substantial resources invested in the stock market” are satisfied with a surging Dow, the data suggest “most Americans are still not happy” with progress on inflation and the strength of the economy....
Whit Ayres’ comments to The Washington Post regarding the killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis: “The circumstances are so blatant, and the situation is so stunning, that of course Republican officials are not going to buy the explanation put out before anybody actually looked at the evidence,” said Republican pollster Whit Ayres. “Any responsible public...
Whit Ayres’ comments to The Guardian on Marco Rubio: Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster who worked on Rubio’s successful 2010 Senate campaign and his failed presidential campaign, said his former client faced a choice of adapting or becoming politically extinct. “Republican elected officials in the Trump era have two choices. They can accommodate themselves to...
Whit Ayres’ comments in NOTUS regarding Hispanic voters and immigration enforcement: “To the extent that ICE is targeting people beyond those who have committed crimes, it’s going to create significant pushback from the Hispanics who voted for Donald Trump, as well as other Americans,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. Ayres emphasized that he thought...
Whit Ayres’ comments in The Washington Post regarding public opinion and Venezuela: Whit Ayres, a longtime GOP pollster, emphasized that it’s hard to predict the politics of Trump’s actions in Venezuela without more data. “What I can say based upon polling is that one of Trump’s strengths in public opinion polls is that he’s viewed...
