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applegrove

(118,685 posts) Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:31 PM Jun 2018

Bombshell Poll Finds Just 28% Support Trump Child Separation Policy

By Sarah N. Lynch and Susan Cornwell at Politicus USA

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/06/19/bombshell-poll-finds-just-28-support-trump-child-separation-policy.html

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A Reuters/Ipsos national opinion poll released on Tuesday showed fewer than one in three American adults support the policy. The June 16-19 poll found that 28 percent of people polled supported the policy, while 57 percent opposed it and the remaining 15 percent said they do not know.

LEGISLATIVE POSSIBILITIES

Three Republican senators – Ron Johnson, Ted Cruz and John Kennedy – called on Trump on Tuesday to allow families to stay together if they have crossed the border illegally, while lawmakers pursue legislation on wider immigration reform.

Cruz, who ran against Trump in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries, plans to introduce a bill this week that would prohibit the separations along with other reforms.

“What I would do until we pass Ted’s bill is to continue to arrest and prosecute people for breaking the law, but allow their children to stay with them,” Kennedy said at a news conference with Johnson and Cruz.

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Bombshell Poll Finds Just 28% Support Trump Child Separation Policy (Original Post) applegrove Jun 2018 OP

28% of the US population are therefore Orcs. byronius Jun 2018 #1

That 28% is killing the rest of us by empowering the shitgibbon... Moostache Jun 2018 #4

Your angry words reflect my rage as well. byronius Jun 2018 #5

Trump doesn't like advice that ends badly for him HopeAgain Jun 2018 #2

Almost 1/3 is still bad enough and disgusting lunasun Jun 2018 #3

This is a Shift wonkwest Jun 2018 #6

No link to the poll in the story. I went looking for the poll. Yonnie3 Jun 2018 #7

On the plus side matt819 Jun 2018 #8

There's the base. sinkingfeeling Jun 2018 #9

28% is about the percentage of Trump's rock bottom core support. Kaleva Jun 2018 #10

Let's give the 28% to ICE in exchange for the families. nt chowder66 Jun 2018 #11

byronius

(7,395 posts)

1. 28% of the US population are therefore Orcs.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:34 PM

Jun 2018

And they smell manflesh.

Send them back to Russia, I say.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)

4. That 28% is killing the rest of us by empowering the shitgibbon...

Reply to byronius (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:38 PM

Jun 2018

I consider them all complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed today. They need to be tried and held to account with their god emperor....fuck them all.

byronius

(7,395 posts)

5. Your angry words reflect my rage as well.

Reply to Moostache (Reply #4)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:40 PM

Jun 2018

These people are traitors to the US. They don't believe in the basic concepts. Out.

HopeAgain

(4,407 posts)

2. Trump doesn't like advice that ends badly for him

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:34 PM

Jun 2018

Maybe, at least, that Nazi Miller will get tossed out of the White House.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)

3. Almost 1/3 is still bad enough and disgusting

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:37 PM

Jun 2018

wonkwest

(463 posts)

6. This is a Shift

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:42 PM

Jun 2018

I keep saying the body politic needs to shift profoundly to combat Trump.

This is a shift. A welcome one. There are basic things Americans will not endure.

I'm proud of my country to see that we're not going to put up with this.

Yonnie3

(17,444 posts)

7. No link to the poll in the story. I went looking for the poll.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:45 PM

Jun 2018

No luck with Reuters/Ipsos

I see that https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/separating-families-at-the-border-is-really-unpopular/ mentions multiple polls with links.

Pollster Dates Support Oppose Other
CBS News June 14-17 17% 67% 16%
CNN June 14-17 28 67 5
Quinnipiac June 14-17 27 66 8
IPSOS June 14-15 27 55 17
Average 25 64 12

I don't know how to get that table to format right

I'm off to read the article.

matt819

(10,749 posts)

8. On the plus side

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jun 19, 2018, 05:46 PM

Jun 2018

We now know the absolute core support. Cultists? True Believers? Brownshirts? Fascists? Given the consistent polls of 37% support, it may well be that 9% can be moved.