It’s been six days since the government began a partial shutdown under the direction of President Donald J. Trump. Now, a new poll shows what some are saying could possibly be the beginning of the end for Trump – a nose dive in the court of public opinion.
As Mueller continues his Russian election interference probe, the American people are already casting their “border wall” verdicts – guilty. In fact, the Morning Consult National Tracking Poll had some decidedly grim statistics for the troubled Commander-in-Chief and his extremely white base.
The findings show that only 39% of respondents approve of Trump, while 56% don’t. To put it into perspective, he’s about as popular now as he was in August 2017 after the Charlottsville protests.
A majority of Trump supporters polled also believe the president won’t be able to obtain full funding for his border wall – a whopping 52% of them.
Then there’s this: 43% plurality says he is mostly to blame for shutdown; 53% also say he didn’t do enough to stop it from happening.
The poll was conducted between Dec. 21-23, 2018. Registered voters were surveyed two hours before some government agencies shut down amid an impasse over wall funding. 39% of registered voters — including 80% of Republicans — approved of Trump’s job performance. However, 90% of Democrats surveyed did not approve (equating to 56%). As for Independents, that percentage was even higher at 57%.
Approximately 63% of those surveyed said they understood what caused the shutdown. To follow that up, 43% of registered voters said Trump was mostly to blame for the shutdown.
1,992 registered voters took part in the newest national online survey where 78% of voters said they had heard at least “some” about the government shutdown rumblings rotating throughout the current news cycles.