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.
is this the poll where they oversampled democrats 3:1?
Fixed.
The GOPES (Government Over the People State-ists) are using its results to get McConnell urge Trump back off.Push amnesty forget any new shutdown .
I say apply the same rules to them they apply to US. The ;Mexican constitution rule on citizenship. One must be a citizen not only vote but to own land and they are very restrictive about granting citizenship. Because of that a US citizen besides not being able to vote, cannot have title in their name to any property in Mexico. And until that is changed the US and the affected state should consider making that reciprocal.prohibiting citizens of Mexico or countries with similar restrictions from doing both. .
THAT is the question. "
And the Answer is ... YES the majority of "American" people ARE that stupid, shallow, and shortsighted.
The smoke is in the Indis and unknowns which can easily get their fake results.
But 100% predictable.
Not sure?
When has the media honestly reported anything since Clinton became President?
-PJ
BS. I don’t believe you.
Otherwise, those who voted for him—if they wanted a wall—in 2016, are not going to give up on him and elect, or allow to be elected, anyone else who is completely opposed to the wall.
That makes no sense at all.
Now, if you’re saying most Americans are morons, I’d find it much harder to disagree.
Give us the cross tabs.....which CBS never does
I don’t believe this for one minute
Magic 8 Ball says Yes
Not even Democrats believe this poll.
BS yourself. Geez, sometimes this forum is full of it.
You can disagree with my opinion, but what is this baloney telling me I don’t mean what I say? What is with all the thin skinned FReepers? I’m not insulting you.
Yes, some days I do think the majority of Americans are morons. A lot of people on the right don’t understand the long game and that is very foolish.
Regarding the wall, it’s too late for the long game. We support the President, unfortunately it seems that no one in Washington does. Also, many people at the street level have no understanding of what DJT is fighting, nor do they understand what the limitations of the Presidency are.
It won’t take very many on the right staying home to kill his reelection - not combined with the record fraud we can expect. He needs a wall victory for those voters with short attention spans.
They called Trump president one time, then started calling him Mr Trump
Pure BS.
Bullstalin
Show me a single Democrapweasel who is for turning away ANY illegal border crossings.
Stalinists lie. ALWAYS
Yeh thats the ticket.
If you could believe these polls, Hillary would be President.
These polls are the reason why the Rats have not moved off their position and I think they give a fair assessment of the feeling of the American voters.
Trump’s leverage was with keeping the shut down going until the pressure was so great the two sides would have to deal.
Now the only option left is to go it alone, if he can, or say he tried and leave his base hanging.
On a side note, I am reading this morning about all this crap of another shut down. If that is the case, why did you stop the shut down to begin with. Ridiculous!
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