President Donald Trump’s introduction of the Olympic hockey champions at the State of the Union sparked bipartisan approval, with Independent voters loving the moment most.
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PresidentDonaldTrump’sintroductionofthegoldmedal-winningUSAmen’sOlympichockeyteamduringtheStateoftheUnionaddressonTuesdaynightwasmetwithlargelypositivebipartisanreactionsamongvoters.
LeeCarter,ofthepollinggroupMaslansky&Partners,saidIndependentvotersespeciallylovedthemomentwhentheplayersenteredtheHouseChamberwearingtheirgoldmedalsandUSAsweatshirts,andweremetwiththunderous“U-S-A”chants.
“TheUSAhockeyteamandmilitaryrecognitionmomentswerewidelynoticed,”Cartersaid.“Visual,patrioticmomentslandedmoreconsistentlythanpolicy-heavysegments.”
Accordingtothepollinggroup,visualdialsshowedIndependentvoterreactionhadthelargestspikeduringthemoment.DialsshowedreactionfromRepublicanvoters,whowerealreadyenergizedbythespeech,alsoincreased,whilereactionfromDemocratvoters,whowereoveralltheleastenthuseddur
