Evan Roth Smith on how views on immigration and inflation led to Trump’s reelection

Slingshot partner Evan Roth Smith told NBC how the rightward shift of popular opinion, especially on the issues with the highest salience for the 2024 election, almost guaranteed a Republican victory.

“The electorate has moved decisively to the right on a number of key issues, which happen to be the key issues that defined this election, especially immigration and inflation,” said Evan Roth Smith, the lead pollster for the Democratic group Blueprint. “It was probably impossible for any Democrat to win, and probably any Republican could have won, because Harris made probably the best possible attempt to win it and Trump made the best possible attempt to lose it.”

Read the full NBC News story here.