Leading GOP pollster: Trump's focus on immigration sunk House majority
President Trump’s relentless focus on immigration in the midterm elections cost the Republican Party control of the House of Representatives, according to a blistering after-action review produced a by leading GOP pollster.
The findings from David Winston raise questions about Trump’s political position heading into 2020. That’s because the issue he most often discusses on the stump, border security and the migrant caravan, were big losers with critical voting blocs, and largely responsible for the late-breaking Democratic wave that swept Republicans from power in the House, according to Winston.
Winston's data is influential because he is a longtime polling and policy analyst for Republican leaders in Congress. In the House, at least, Republicans could rely significantly on his report as they attempt to chart a path back to the majority. Winston, a veteran strategist who advised Newt Gingrich during his tenure as speaker of the House in the 1990s, produces a postmortem after every major election.
“The closing focus in the final days of the campaign was on the immigration/caravan message, popular with the base and those at President Trump’s rallies but also controversial and divisive, particularly with independents,” Winston wrote in his report, a combination of exit polling and a national, post-election poll conducted on Election Day before the outcome was known. “The people who made their decision over the last few days voted Democratic by a 12-point margin.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/leading-gop-pollster-trumps-focus-on-immigration-sunk-house-majority/ar-BBR60uh?li=BBnb7Kz
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