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DAVID A. GRAHAM
6:00 AM ET
... Early in January, public opinion briefly moved toward Trump, but since then it has gotten ugly for him again. A Politico/Morning Consult poll released Wednesday showed that voters blamed Trump and Republicans more than congressional Democrats, 5435. In a CBS poll, seven in 10 voters said a border wall was not worth the shutdown, and respondents rated House Speaker Nancy Pelosis handling of negotiations higher than Trumps, 4735. An Associated Press/NORC poll found that 60 percent held Trump responsible for the shutdown, versus 31 percent who blamed Democrats.
For months, Trumps overall approval rating has been an object of fascination for pundits. On the one hand, its terrible, hovering in the low 40s ... On the other hand, it has just hovered there. Almost nothing not the steady drumbeat of damning news on the Russia investigation, not the chaos of the White House, and neither a strong economy nor a volatile stock market seemed able to dislodge it. The American people had apparently made up their minds about Trump, and the four in 10 who approved werent going to change their minds, come hell or high water.
Yet the shutdown seems to have broken that equilibrium. Trump hit his highest disapproval on record in the Morning Consult poll, at 57 percent. CBS found 59 percent disapproval. In the AP-NORC poll, Trumps approval tanked from 42 percent a month ago to 34 percent ... FiveThirtyEights poll aggregator shows a clear downward trend since the start of the shutdown, with Trumps approval heading toward depths not seen since his disastrous December 2017 and the aftermath of a white-supremacist march in Charlottesville ...
Whats interesting is not just that the approval rate is finally budging, but why and with whom ...
In practice, however, weakened standing among that base accounts for Trumps slumping approval. The NPR/NewsHour/Marist poll finds that Trumps approval is down among suburban men, white evangelicals, and men without a college degree, all key segments of his constituency ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/01/trump-approval-polls-shutdown/581215/
struggle4progress
(118,293 posts)By David Axelrod, CNN Senior Political Commentator
Updated 7:43 PM ET, Sat January 26, 2019
... back in charge of the House, Pelosi has just treated .. Trump to a brutal civics lesson about the separation of powers ...
Had he not made the wall his sine qua non, Trump might have been able to claim this as a victory, arguing that he won significant new funding for border security ...
The problem is, he got elected by selling the wall. He invested it with huge symbolic importance and his faithful, nativist flock believed him ...
So my guess is that Trump will play the national emergency card when the deadline arrives in three weeks ...
He almost certainly will lose again -- this time in the courts -- as the Constitution clearly assigns the power to appropriate money to the Congress. But he will want to get caught trying ...
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/26/opinions/pelosis-brutal-civics-lesson-for-trump-axelrod/index.html
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Brought to you care of the worst administration in American history.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)thanks for that mental image
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its been insane. The world went mad.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)And people realize the king is nekkid!
Its only going to get worse for him.
And the duplicity of the republicans are going to really piss off America.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Asses are always cracked.
trusty elf
(7,394 posts)calimary
(81,304 posts)ROFL!!!!
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)C Moon
(12,213 posts)Cha
(297,288 posts)humptyrumpty had a great Fall.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Hey Ann, say some more demeaning things about Trump. Surely you can find something more humiliating than "wimp?" We Dems have always know that he was a coward masquerading as a tough guy.