Whit Ayres joined James Carville and Al Hunt on their Politics War Room podcast to talk about the state of the race in the last week: https://t.co/mr49WiDwhs
However, the Republican pollster Whit Ayres told me that he is seeing the same divergence between slipping non-white support and steady white backing for Harris in his surveys—and he sees good reasons for that pattern potentially persisting through Election Day. “The Hispanic and African American weakness [for Harris] is a function of a memory of...
Whit Ayres spoke with The Morning Dispatch newsletter about polling and weighting results: Whit Ayres, the president of North Star Research, told TMD that any adjustments, whether based on class, party, or previous vote, that try to account for these voters are necessarily unproven. “There’s no question that a nonresponse bias, which is simply a...
Dan Judy’s comments in The Atlantic about persuadable voters: If people are tuning out, it might not matter much for the election results. Most people already know whom they’re going to vote for; the universe of truly undecided voters is very small—likely less than 15 percent of the electorate. “The vast, vast, vast majority of...
Jon McHenry spoke with Ron Brownstein of CNN regarding the importance of working-class white women in the 2024 presidential election: Trump’s other big asset with these women is the economy. Many working-class White women live with very little economic margin, and pollsters agree the cumulative increase under Biden in the cost of living – notwithstanding...
Whit Ayres spoke with The Hill regarding false claims about the hurricane response: “The most effective messages are those that have the benefit of being true. When you have Republicans directly [contradicting] Trump’s argument, like Gov. Kemp, all it does is reinforce the people who are already on his side and doesn’t persuade anyone else...
Whit Ayres’ comments to NBC News regarding the political affects of handling, or mishandling, natural disasters: “These storms are make-or-break events for elected leaders when a disaster strikes,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster. “When the election is down to seven swing states that are essentially tied at the moment, and several of those swing...
Whit Ayres’ comments to ABC News about the Jack Smith filing: “It reinforces what people already believe,” Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster, said about the Smith filing. “Democracy is one of the top issues for Democrats, but not for Republicans. And so it’ll simply fortify their belief that Trump is a threat to democracy,...
Jon McHenry spoke to The Boston Globe regarding Governor Sanders’ comments about Vice President Harris: Republican pollster and strategist Jon McHenry described Sanders’ remarks as “a gratuitous slap,” and warned that the rhetoric being pushed by Republicans could influence women voters in the upcoming November election. McHenry said the comments against Harris are “not helpful”...
Jon McHenry joined BBC’s Newshour for the last ten minutes on September 16 to discuss the assassination attempt against Donald Trump in Florida: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172zb9293pdscy
