Prominent pollster warns GOP that failure to cut spending could revive Tea Party movement

Prominent pollster Rich Baris said Thursday that Republicans actually have to fight and actually cut spending if they want to keep their base energized.

"Just the News, No Noise" host John Solomon asked Baris, the Director of Big Data Poll, if he thought the Tea Party movement would reemerge if Republicans don't start cutting spending. 

Baris agreed with that, but said there was more to it. 

"Republicans just have to find the stomach for this fight, because there are people out there who aren't even die-hard Republicans [who] have common sense, and they understand that this cannot continue forever," he answered on the Thursday edition of the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show. 

Baris said that while most Americans don't want programs like Medicaid and Medicare cut, they are willing to see reforms made to them so that spending isn't out of control. 

"The best thing they [Republicans] could do to get that vote out, to motivate those people, is to be like the people they pretended to be when they're on the campaign trail," he said. "Just do it. I think they will be pleasantly surprised at how many new people they motivate and inspire."