Mark Penn: Donald Trump gains traction on crime issue
Mark Penn's lengthy tweet summarized the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll . Penn is the co-director of the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll. When he examined the poll results, he found that "Trump's ratings stabilized this month. And I think he began to get traction on crime. He’s now shifted focus from immigration to tariffs, and now to leading a national crackdown on crime, and you’re seeing a generally favorable response to it." It extends beyond that, though. Penn also said "Fifty-four percent approve of the president’s approach, using the National Guard in D.C. That's interesting. Any time I apply the word 'Trump,' it’s very hard to get above 50%. If I take his name off the policies, I get 60, 70, 75, even 80% support—for example, locking up criminals who are here illegally. But when you put his name, the country is so polarized that Democrats won’t concede a single inch." That isn't surprising. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois's Democrat governor, is one o...