Rich Baris
Role at the time: Pollster; founder, Big Data Poll
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Pollster Rich Baris said he did not think Trump's $5,000 election dividend pledge was good policy, but said it was good politics.
“I don't think it's good policy either... but it is good politics.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)The Charlie Kirk Show: "We Will NEVER Surrender"
The Charlie Kirk Show episode with host Andrew Kolvet and guest Sean Davis (The Federalist), discussing Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier" essay.
Why we used this label
Baris explicitly separates the pledge's political effectiveness from its policy merit, saying he doesn't think it's good policy but does think it's good politics -- a genuinely mixed assessment.