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President Donald Trump faces a tall task in his Oval Office address on Tuesday night: convincing voters outside of his political base that there is an urgent crisis at the nations southern border, that a wall along the border is necessary to solve it, and its worth a government shutdown that has stretched for nearly three weeks.
A new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll, conducted as the partial government shutdown reached its third week, reveals the scope of Trumps challenge. A minority of voters agree with Trumps description of a crisis of illegal immigration at the southern border. Theres only tepid support for the wall he wants to build there. Voters are opposed to shutting down the government to extract the funds for the walls construction and more blame Trump and the GOP for the shutdown than Democrats.
Nearly half of voters, 47 percent, say Trump is mostly to blame for the shutdown, the poll shows, while another 5 percent point the finger at congressional Republicans. But just a third, 33 percent, blame Democrats in Congress.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/08/poll-voters-blame-trump-gop-for-shutdown-1088207
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)That number is encouraging.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Is it 5% that blame republicans or 47+5=52% blame republicans? We need to do better making it clear the bill to reopen government is hung up in the republican senate
BumRushDaShow
(128,851 posts)I posted similar in a different thread.