97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every weekday morning, 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck chats with government officials, UNC scholars, business and nonprofit leaders, area musicians, and others in our community as they share their thoughts, their experience, and their expertise on the central issues of today. Click here to listen back to all of Aaron’s conversations – and tune in to “This Morning with Aaron Keck” at 7:30 a.m. on 97.9 The Hill to hear those conversations live.
Every other Monday, Aaron is joined at 8:30 a.m. by Tom Jensen, the director of Public Policy Polling, for a longstanding regular segment called “What We’re Thinking,” looking at recent survey numbers and discussing what they tell us about American public opinion – election-related and otherwise.
This week, Tom and Aaron discuss a new PPP survey out of Pennsylvania that shows a plurality of Republican voters supporting Donald Trump for the GOP presidential nomination – and Doug Mastriano for U.S. Senate, though he was handily defeated in a gubernatorial election last year. Tom says that’s part of a nationwide pattern, where Republican voters tend to favor highly conservative firebrands over less vocal but more effective “workhorses,” even though that reduces their chances of winning in the general election. He says that could be relevant in North Carolina – where the GOP’s two leading 2024 gubernatorial candidates are firebrand Mark Robinson and workhorse Dale Folwell.
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