], - Positive opinion of this politician: 39% --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 40% (14th most popular Republican) His new book, published in 2019, Its Up to Us: Ten Little Ways We Can Bring About Big Change, advocates for community activism rather than waiting for Washington to bring about change. She had served as first lady (19932001) during the administration of her More than a few Republicans found popularity with their opposition to President Barack Obama, especially his Affordable Care Act, which offered an option for health care coverage to uninsured Americans. - Negative opinion of this politician: 41% Bush had a penchant for malapropisms and mangling phrases that became known as Bushisms, and he was popular for his affable Texas style. --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 24% (44th most popular Republican) When the provocative statement that she made drew unacceptable reaction that was beyond the bounds, we condemned those statements and removed threatening comments made toward her. The charismatic, Austrian-born star returned to Hollywood after leaving office in 2011, starring in Terminator: Dark Fate in 2019. --- Positive opinion among women: 42% (40th most popular Republican) Witt told Newsweek that he was largely apolitical when he started at the University of Colorado Denver, "until I saw how terrible the left is to anyone with a different point of view. He married Ivanka Trump in 2009, and they have three children. --- Positive opinion among Millennials: 30% (72nd most popular Republican) Her group finds young people who escaped communism and socialism and makes short videos about their experience, one of which, featuring a Cuban refugee, has been viewed 13 million times thus far. --- Positive opinion among Millennials: 28% (84th most popular Republican) Her unabashed style is seen by many as paving the way for the successful candidacy of President Donald Trump. --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 40% (13th most popular Republican) - Neutral opinion of this politician: 26% Saira Blair Last year, Blair became the youngest elected state legislator in At GWU, she would seek out opportunities to debate liberal professors and students. - Neutral opinion of this politician: 27% - Neutral opinion of this politician: 13% --- Positive opinion among men: 56% (87th most popular Republican) When Orrin Hatch retired in 2018, he was the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate. At the time of her election, she was the youngest woman ever elected to Congress at 38 years old. - People who have heard of this politician: 42%. Henry Kissinger. - Neutral opinion of this politician: 14% Upset that students weren't saying the Pledge of Allegiance in classrooms, the future presidential confidante called into a radio show hosted by Larry Elder, a prominent Black conservative, to complain. --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 36% (40th most popular Republican) Coming from a poor family, Rick Scott rose to become chief executive of Columbia/HCA, the nations largest private, for-profit hospital chain. ], - Positive opinion of this politician: 23% We're just trying to promote thoughtful discussion. --- Positive opinion among men: 56% (89th most popular Republican) "He's a hero of mine, and I feel that conservative principles transcend party politics," she told Newsweek. She's releasing 10 more videos in the next two months, and next year she's creating a curriculum she hopes will be adopted in schools. --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 38% (22nd most popular Republican) --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 24% (52nd most popular Republican) Ryans poll ratings slipped in 2017 after the House, where he was speaker, failed to overturn the Affordable Care Act that had become President Barack Obamas legacy. "Who does he think he is? --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 31% (66th most popular Republican) ", Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters, Dr. Fauci Would Bet 10 Cents on Trump Having Vaccine by November, December, Florida Dem Rep Shalala Admits Squad Sometimes Pisses Her Off, Lets Loose on 'Idiotic' Trump. --- Positive opinion among men: 59% (55th most popular Republican) [Pictured: Senior Advisor Jared Kushner attends a meeting on Opportunity Zones in the Cabinet Room of the White House May 18, 2020. - People who have heard of this politician: 50%. ], - Positive opinion of this politician: 18% --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 40% (12th most popular Republican) As governor of Ohio, he signed more than 20 laws limiting abortion access, although he vetoed a bill that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, saying it would not hold up in court. introduces Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) to a crowd of supporters at Courtyards of Andover Event Center in Andover, Minnesota. --- Positive opinion among women: 39% (76th most popular Republican) Now he is the only black Republican in the U.S. Senate, where he has sided with the Trump administration on issues such as tax reform, efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and two Supreme Court justice nominations. The Young Republican National Federation, commonly referred to as the Young Republicans or YRNF, is a 527 organization for members of the Republican Party of the United States between the ages of 18 and 40. Known for his down-home style, the Baptist minister and former governor of Arkansas ran for president in 2008 and won the Iowa caucus, but failed to sustain his early success. Historically, he gained a reputation for bipartisanship, built on his friendship with the late Sen. Ted Kennedy with whom he designed a health insurance plan. [Pictured: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) marches with a crowd singing Little Light of Mine in Washington D.C. on June 7, 2020. Mike Huckabee visits the Fox Studios in New York on Sept. 17, 2019. Bill Bennett was education secretary under President Ronald Reagan and the nations first so-called drug czar, heading the Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George H. W. Bush. --- Positive opinion among men: 57% (83rd most popular Republican) --- Positive opinion among men: 58% (70th most popular Republican) ], You may also like: The original Woodstock, by the numbers, - Positive opinion of this politician: 19% She said that for three years in a row vandals ripped crosses out of the ground that were meant to honor aborted fetuses during her YAF chapter's annual anti-abortion display. One of them, discussing a South Carolina college instructor who threatened to expose "pro-police" teachers at elementary schools in an effort to have them fired, was viewed 271,000 times in July, for example. ], - Positive opinion of this politician: 23% - Negative opinion of this politician: 11% --- Positive opinion among women: 44% (18th most popular Republican) 6 Republican Women on the Future of the GOP. He's not my plantation owner. Stacker compiled a list of the 50 most popular Republicans, based on data collected by YouGov from interviews between May 2019 and May 2020, with at least 7,000 people interviewed for each figure. ], - Positive opinion of this politician: 42% --- Positive opinion among men: 58% (68th most popular Republican) --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 21% (95th most popular Republican) - Negative opinion of this politician: 17% Mel Carnahan, who had been killed three weeks earlier in a plane crash. - Neutral opinion of this politician: 17% He enjoyed the experience so much he dropped out of college, got a job at PragerU and has since made about 200 videos that have been viewed 350 million times. He rarely discusses politics in school, so two years ago he decided he "needed a place to vent" and made his first video and threw it up on his Instagram page, where it was well received. "A girl messaged me just the other day saying she was always on the left, but watched my videos and is now a hard-core conservative battling her liberal friends in Los Angeles." - People who have heard of this politician: 84%. --- Positive opinion among Millennials: 33% (53rd most popular Republican) Ryan was critical of Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 presidential election, but backed off after Trumps victory. --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 22% (84th most popular Republican) --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 21% (94th most popular Republican) Members of the IOP staff reached out to her, and the IOP through the director issued a strong statement. --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 25% (23rd most popular Republican) [Pictured: Arnold Schwarzenegger addresses the crowd at the Arnold Sports Festival on March 7, 2020. --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 37% (28th most popular Republican) --- Positive opinion among women: 41% (49th most popular Republican) --- Positive opinion among Millennials: 28% (83rd most popular Republican) The Georgia Congressman and more than 300 other Republicans signed a Contract With America in 1994, filled with conservative calls for tax cuts, smaller government, fewer regulations, and congressional term limits. --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 39% (15th most popular Republican) Mitt Romney founded the investment firm Bain Capital before becoming governor of Massachusetts in 2003. --- Positive opinion among Millennials: 35% (42nd most popular Republican) One person who threatened me online was specifically upset that I criticized socialism." Giannelli created her YAF chapter at her Illinois high school, where teachers and administrators dragged out the process for five months, about five times the norm for creating a club. --- Positive opinion among Millennials: 22% (102nd most popular Republican) Before that, she was governor of South Carolina, where she was a tea party conservative. --- Positive opinion among women: 45% (11th most popular Republican) - Negative opinion of this politician: 32% Allen West is a 20-year U.S. Army veteran, serving in the Gulf War in 1991 and in Iraq in 2003, and was awarded the Bronze Star and other medals. Bush at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. on Dec. 5, 2018. Before he was vaulted into his senior advisor role in the White House, Kushner owned a New York City weekly newspaper and ran his familys real estate development company when his father was imprisoned for tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering. --- Positive opinion among Millennials: 29% (78th most popular Republican) Although Young Republican organizations existed as early as 1856 with the founding of the New York Young Republican Club,[7] the Young Republican National Federation was formed by George H. Olmsted at the urging of Herbert Hoover. - Neutral opinion of this politician: 16% - Neutral opinion of this politician: 14% - People who have heard of this politician: 48%. [Pictured: Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) He says he was voted "most likely to protest" and lost some friendships after engaging in political debates while a teenager at his Michigan high school, where he countered his reading of Karl Marx with the writings of right-leaning columnists. "I'm the teenager who was defamed by the media," Sandmann, 18, said in his speech. Now the aspiring political commentator has 71,000 followers on that platform, who watch short videos three times daily, and Dao recently launched a YouTube Channel with videos as long as eight minutes, along with a weekly three-hour show dubbed America Rising. - People who have heard of this politician: 60%, In Congress, Michele Bachmann set up the conservative House Tea Party Caucus and gave the tea partys response to Barack Obamas 2011 State of the Union address. The former Dallas Cowboys star and Heisman Trophy winner took heat for speaking at this years Republican National Convention but he beat back critics who claimed Trump is a racist. Donald Rumsfeld had a long career in politics, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives; as U.S. ambassador to NATO; and as secretary of defense twice, under President Gerald Ford and under President George W. Bush. They're younger and far less known than, say, 28-year-old Tomi Lahren (followed by 1.6 million people on Twitter); 31-year-old Candace Owens (2.5 million Twitter followers); 33-year-old Steven Crowder (4.7 million YouTube subscribers); or 25-year-old Madison Cawthorn, the paralyzed congressional candidate in North Carolina who delivered an inspiring speech at the Republican National Convention, lifting himself with a walker from his wheelchair to exclaim, "Be a radical for our republic, for which I stand." WebEd Lopez (National Vice Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus and National Committee Member, Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry) Ernesto Lopez (first Latino elected to the Delaware State Senate) John Lopez IV (Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court since 2016) Pete Lopez (EPA regional administrator; former New York --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 25% (33rd most popular Republican) He was a major opponent of same-sex marriage and of abortion rights, and sponsored a 2003 measure to criminalize ending late-term pregnancies. Goldwater lost the presidential election to President Lyndon Johnson, but as a candidate who opposed Communism, was fiscally conservative, defended personal freedoms, and opposed Democratic civil rights legislation, he helped the conservatives take control of the South, which subsequently aided in getting eight Republican presidents elected in the 13 elections held since that time. --- Positive opinion among men: 54% (96th most popular Republican) Kenneth Blackwell (born 1948), former Ohio State Treasurer and Secretary of State; 2006 Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio Donald Blakey (born 1936), member of the Delaware House of Representatives Edward David Bland (18481927), member of the Virginia House of Delegates Michelle Bernard (born 1963), journalist, author, columnist --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 38% (23rd most popular Republican) and more. [Pictured: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is seen during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to discuss the FBI's "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. on June 3, 2020. Donald Trump was a real estate developer who gained national attention when he starred on the reality television show The Apprentice. The unlikely politician defeated 16 Republican rivals to land the partys presidential nomination in 2016 and, in what was a surprise to many observers, defeated Hillary Clinton in the general election. "But it's invigorating because you have to be outspoken or the mob will eat you alive. - Neutral opinion of this politician: 26% --- Positive opinion among Generation X: 26% (12th most popular Republican) ", Zupkus graduated from George Washington University in 2019 and is now assistant editor for YAF's news blog and co-host of a weekly YAF video. As a rising star in the Republican party, Rick Santorum and other members in the House so-called gang of seven took on members of Congress who were bouncing checks without penalty at the House bank. ], You may also like: Oldest national parks in America, - Positive opinion of this politician: 21% --- Positive opinion among Baby Boomers: 35% (42nd most popular Republican) So much so that Elder took calls on air from Miller 69 times as a high schooler, and the teenager caught the attention of major conservative figures, such as Stephen Bannon, the late Andrew Breitbart and best-selling author-activist David Horowitz. [Pictured: Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum attends the CBS News and Politico 2019 White House Correspondents' Dinner Pre-Party at the Washington Hilton on April 27, 2019. Yahoo! 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