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Julian Englis

(2,309 posts)
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 08:36 PM Feb 2019

Texans solidly against Trump's decision to declare a national emergency

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration to build his border wall will affect Texas more than any other state, and the residents of the Lone Star State are soundly against his decision to use those powers.

Three in five Texas voters disapprove of Trump using his emergency executive powers to fund a wall, according to a poll by Quinnipiac University released Tuesday. That includes 22% of Republicans, 63% of independents and a whopping 99% of Democrats.

A little more than half of voters said they don't think undocumented immigrants crossing the border with Mexico into the US is a national emergency. Overall, Texans are split on their support for Trump's wall -- 48% support building a wall along the border with Mexico and 48% oppose it.

The House passed a resolution to overturn Trump's national emergency declaration Tuesday evening by 245-182. The Senate will be required by law to hold a vote on the resolution within 18 days following passage in the House.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/26/politics/texas-border-poll/index.html

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Texans solidly against Trump's decision to declare a national emergency (Original Post) Julian Englis Feb 2019 OP
Good deal! now bluestarone Feb 2019 #1
TEXANS may be, volstork Feb 2019 #2
Meanwhile only 1 of 23 TX GOP representatives voted for the resolution BumRushDaShow Feb 2019 #3
Are the Texans solidly enough against Trump's declaration to turn Texas blue? HubertHeaver Feb 2019 #4
This might be the opening forklift Feb 2019 #5
I still think it's depressing 72% of Texan Republicans DO support the boondoggle Pluvious Feb 2019 #6

BumRushDaShow

(129,450 posts)
3. Meanwhile only 1 of 23 TX GOP representatives voted for the resolution
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 09:32 PM
Feb 2019

to repeal the declaration (the state has a total of 36 in the U.S. House and all Democrats voted yay).

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll094.xml (the 1 = Hurd, who voted with the Democrats)

Pluvious

(4,315 posts)
6. I still think it's depressing 72% of Texan Republicans DO support the boondoggle
Tue Feb 26, 2019, 11:01 PM
Feb 2019

The apparent fact News Corp, Limpballs and Hate Radio so own the hearts and minds of all those good Christians will be someday be studied by institutions and historians.

We get to live through it.

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