Trump and the GOP agenda: implications for retirement policy

Madland, David; Rowell, Alex

doi:10.4324/9780429021435-8

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“…“It's not that you just have to be with the president on policy—you can't question his behavior and still be a Republican in good standing, apparently, in a Republican primary” (quoted in Edelman 2017): In explaining his decision not to seek re‐election, former Senator Jeff Flake (R‐AZ) pointed to the electoral difficulties he faced as a result of his public criticism of then‐President Donald Trump. Despite voting with the Republican Party 99% of the time in 2017 (“CQ Vote Studies” 2018)—including on signature Republican agenda items such as efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act and the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court—Flake had little support among Arizona Republicans by the end of 2017 (Prokop 2017).…”

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A Good Partisan? Ideology, Loyalty, and Public Evaluations of Members of Congress

Sheagley

Dancey

Henderson³

2022

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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In recent years, legislators from both parties have drawn attention for their public support or opposition to leading figures within their party, such as Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi. Yet we know relatively little about the extent to which voters care about members' professed loyalty to party leaders, especially when compared to competing considerations such as members' policy positions. In two national survey experiments, we independently manipulate hypothetical Democratic and Republican legislators' ideological reputations and levels of support for a leading party figure. Through our experiments and a supplemental observational analysis, we find that partisans in the electorate do use information about support for or opposition to leading party figures as a basis for evaluating members of Congress. At the same time, the results reaffirm the importance voters attach to policy and ideological factors and suggest these considerations are not overwhelmed by partisan loyalty considerations.

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