“The Dobbs decision has clearly energized Democratic voters to the point where they have closed the enthusiasm gap with Republicans,” said Whit Ayres, a longtime GOP pollster...
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Translation: WaPo found a GOP sock-puppet to editorialize for the newspaper’s position.
You are exactly right. A search for “Whit Ayres” brings up several videos of Ayres with the never-Trump Trotskyite assistant democrat Bill Kristol.
https://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/whit-ayres/