Posted on 01/29/2019 3:38:30 PM PST by EinNYC
Days after the end of the longest shutdown in history, a new Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday finds a majority of Americans trust Democrats over President Trump on the issue at the center of the stalemate: border security. Fifty percent of registered voters say they trust Democrats in Congress to address border security, as opposed to 41 percent who said they trust Mr. Trump.
The results are deeply divided along party and racial lines. Republicans trust Mr. Trump 87 to 8 percent, while Democrats trust congressional Democrats 91 to 4 percent. White voters trust Mr. Trump by 50 to 44 percent, black voters trust Democrats by 75 to 16 percent and Hispanic voters trust Democrats 66 to 13 percent.
As recently as November, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found voters trusted Republicans over Democrats on border security by 10 points. The 35-day shutdown was the result of a dispute over funding for a border wall. Mr. Trump initially refused to sign any funding bill that didn't include money for the wall, which Democrats opposed. However, Mr. Trump backed down on Friday, signing a continuing resolution without wall funding to reopen the government through Feb. 15 while congressional negotiators try to craft a deal on border security.
White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told "Face the Nation" Mr. Trump is willing to allow another shutdown if he does not get wall funding by the new deadline.
"He is willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border. He does take this very seriously. This is a serious humanitarian and security crisis," Mulvaney said Sunday.
But the Quinnipiac poll found the wall is mostly popular among members of Mr. Trump's political base. Fifty-five percent of voters overall oppose building a wall, while 41 percent support it. Sixty-one percent of voters said they would support a bill funding new border security measures without a wall, and 66 percent of voters said they would not support Mr. Trump calling a national emergency to build the wall. Mr. Trump is also mulling a national emergency declaration as a possible path to funding wall construction.
The poll also found 56 percent of voters blamed Mr. Trump and Republicans for the shutdown. Sixty-eight percent said they did not support shutting down the government in an attempt to get funding for the wall.
“Quinnipiac poll”
LOL
Should I laugh or cry?
But even Obama pretended to sound more moderate than the crazed clowns that are running today... Harris, the Bern, Schulz, Bloomberg, Warren, maybe Kerry and Biden.
Most likely. Polls are mostly untrustworthy agit-prop these days.
"...another worthless poll..."
Well, whatever the true state of the situation is, I firmly believe that if the President is unsuccessful in making serious headway on this, his chances of reelection in 2020 are almost non-existent.
If the majority of Americans want a wall, how can more people possibly trust the Democrats with border security?
I don’t believe it. This same Quinnipiac outfit had Clinton winning in 2016.
Hillary is therefore president.
LOL
Ramping up the negative polls on Trump to lay the groundwork for impeachment.
I don’t think they have figured out how to deal with cell phones yet. They appear to be trying to use the same models they used with land lines back before people could screen their calls. I do not know they are inaccurate on purpose but I do know that they are nowhere near as reliable as they were 25 years ago.
50 % of the people who watch CBS News support Dems on the Wall
This is the poll, and the sample methodology of the poll.
https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2596
https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us01292019_demos_urya62.pdf/
Let’s be clear, they asked 1004 registered voters and use their opinions to extrapolate the views of hundreds of millions.
I’m not impressed.
The poll does not matter. The country is not legislated by polls. The election counts. The PRESIDENT won. He has a mandate from the voters. That has not changed.
Making up Bullscat polls so the media can then report on it as news.
Americans are STUPID!!!
Polls are bought and paid for BS. Watch what these people do, not what they say.
Nobody believes democrats or republicans on anything, but they can be induced to look the other way if they grease enough palms.
It takes a couple of clicks, but check out the methodology.
ROTF!!!
You lie!
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