… Hart Research’s Jeff Horwitt shared with me 15 months of previously unreleased data from the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that his firm conducts alongside GOP firm Public Opinion Strategies for the two news organizations. …
The data shows that Republicans who have been seeing themselves as Trump loyalists have not turned against the former President, but their enthusiasm for him has waned. Those who thought of themselves as more “party people” than “Trump people” have not turned against the former president so much as shifted from positive to neutral. …
In this case, it does not seem that absence makes the heart grow fonder. Rather, it is more out of sight, out of mind. CONTINUED
Charlie Cook
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