All posts tagged "Sarah Longwell"

Voters who helped put President Donald Trump back in office are recoiling from his latest stunt, a former GOP pollster found.

Sarah Longwell, publisher of The Bulwark, wrote Friday that she gathered a group of Florida voters who backed Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of his job performance. She then showed them one of the taxpayer-funded "public service announcements" running during NFL games, college football and "Dancing with the Stars."

The spot pulls from a 2024 campaign rally speech in which Trump vows to "demolish the deep state," "drive out the globalists" and "liberate America from these villains once and for all."...

Political analysts expressed their shock at learning that swing voters are unfamiliar with the latest killings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

During an episode of The Next Level, former Republican pollster Sarah Longwell revealed that a focus group she held this week found that swing voters and voters from swing states hadn't heard about the ICE killings in Texas and Maine.

"We asked about these shootings. They didn't know they'd happened, hadn't heard anything about them, just didn't even know," Longwell said. "We do not have an engaged populace in this. People are not paying attention the same way."...

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski was taken aback by the negative reactions of Donald Trump supporters who slammed his sweeping tariffs and expressed concern with the direction the economy seemed to be heading.

During his presidential campaign, Trump vowed to bring down prices for consumers "on Day One," yet the steep tariffs he imposed on the country's trade partners this month threaten to do the opposite.

Conservative pollster Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark played some of the voter reactions Monday on "Morning Joe."...

Former Republican lawmaker Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) posited in a new Substack piece that the nearly decade-long fever pervading the GOP thanks to a "virus called Donald Trump" is finally showing signs of breaking.

Kinzinger described this insidious "political pathogen" as causing "a fever so disorienting that many cannot see his malevolence."

But Kinzinger wrote that the president's failure to shift the economy into high gear as he promised on the campaign trail has many voters wiping the scales from their eyes....

Former President Donald Trump is gearing up to fleece Republican Party voters on a level like never before, longtime GOP consultant Sarah Longwell told MSNBC's Chris Hayes on Thursday.

This comes after the Republican National Committee revealed this week it's had its worst fundraising year in a decade — and the picture looks even worse for many state-level GOP committees.

"One of the things, Sarah — parties have gotten weaker over time," said Hayes. "I think RNC, if I'm not mistaken, $80 million last year? And Trump had $50 million in legal fees. I mean, those dollars, it is a fixed part. There's a certain amount of small-dollar Republican conservative donors, a certain amount of money that's gonna come flowing in. And right now $50 million in legal fees."...