… In poll after poll, the message on the shutdown is the same. Most Americans, a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday shows, blame Trump and his party for the shutdown. …
Perhaps more important, Trump’s rhetoric on the issue doesn’t appear to have changed many minds, if any.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Monday makes that point clear. Trump’s most significant effort to convince America that it was more important to build a wall on the border with Mexico than fund the government without wall funding was his speech from the Oval Office last week — his first time leveraging that traditional style of speech since being elected.
It did not work. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post