Doubling down on same failed strategy
FEB. 14, 2019, AT 7:46 PM
By Nate Silver
... the act of declaring a national emergency to build a wall is even more unpopular than the wall itself — and the wall isn’t popular. Polls as tracked by PollingReport.com show an average of 32 percent of Americans in favor of the declaration and 65 percent opposed. Even in an era where many of Trump’s top priorities poll only in the low-to-mid-40s, that’s an especially large split, with roughly twice as many voters opposed as in favor.
... it’s an issue that causes a fair amount of divisiveness even among Republican lawmakers.
And the strategy suggests that Trump didn’t learn any lessons from the shutdown. His approval rating, which was 42.2 percent on the day the shutdown began, bottomed out at 39.3 just as the shutdown was ending ...
... Trump does unpopular stuff, and he becomes more unpopular. The erosion mostly comes from independents ...
But Trump will need those independents to win re-election ...
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-border-wall-national-emergency/
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