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      <image:caption>Bryan Bennett: "Even if Democrats win big in the midterms in 2026 or win the White House back in 2028, those gains could just as easily be wiped out in 2030 or 2032 without direct focusing on improving institutional trust."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“The agonizing question from now until the election will be whether non-college-educated Republicans — particularly White non-college — hold their nose and turn out at rates for Republicans that keep the environment more at a ‘blue wave’ level, or whether they stay home and the differential causes a crossover into a ‘blue tsunami’ level,” says Bryan Bennett, a Democratic pollster and data analyst.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Bryan Bennett compiles 60 years of ANES data on trust in government and shows how skepticism is a core threat to Democratic power in 2028/30... his warning to Democrats is that any majority they win this fall is at risk in 2030 unless they break a two-decade streak of distrust."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>“So much of the oxygen in the room is taken up by, ‘How do Democrats deal with, and how do progressives deal with, talking about the economy in a way that really meets voters where they are?’” Bennett said. “And I think that inherently detracts from basically every other issue, regardless of whether it’s a good thing to talk about or not.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Earlier this month, Bryan Bennett at Loft Beck Strategies surveyed 1,500 registered voters nationwide + an oversample of 402 self-identified Dems – the kind of sample that allows you to draw meaningful insights about where the base is at."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"We called up our pollster, Loft Beck Strategies Principal Bryan Bennett, to ask him to sum this all up for us: 'It’s pretty simple: if Democrats want to improve their brand and expand their coalition, they need to show voters that they have a backbone. Voters across the board want leaders who show strength and have a vision of who they are fighting for and what they are fighting against.'"</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>'"It’s clear from the outside that Mamdani is an effective communicator and trying to drive a singular message,' Bryan Bennett, a public-opinion researcher with Loft Beck Strategies, wrote in an email."</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Bryan Bennett, principal at the Democratic-leaning political consultancy firm Loft Beck Strategies, told DFD that using AI for parody can be a way to connect to voters in the same way that memes have... though he does have serious reservations about the technology misleading voters."</image:caption>
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