Trump’s Own Pollster Just Hit Him with Very Bad News—and a Warning

By the way, don’t overlook the poll’s finding about the popularity of extending the expanded ACA subsidies. This, too, puts Republicans in a difficult spot. The nonprofit group KFF calculates that Republicans represent more than half of ACA enrollees likely to see large premium jumps if the subsidies expire. “House GOP constituents would see the biggest shock from these tax credits expiring,” Larry Levitt, an executive vice president at Kaiser, told me.

What will Republicans do? A lot of those constituents are working and middle class, as HuffPost’s Jonathan Cohn details, but extending these subsidies will collide with the bedrock GOP ideological commitment to policies that take from poor and working people to keep taxes low on rich people and corporations.

That’s the big picture on all these fronts: Trump and Republicans will again want to advance those broad priorities, but they’ve also been shown repeatedly to be a big political loser. We now have this straight from Trump’s own pollster, who is effectively warning them off of doing exactly that. But as should be overwhelmingly clear by now, they are very much poised not to listen.