Swordsmyth
01-29-2019, 09:10 PM
A new poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal (https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5695327-19020-NBCWSJ-January-Poll-1.html) shows that one politician lost big during the shutdown, but shockingly, that politician wasn’t President Donald Trump — it was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
In a strange twist of fate that must befuddle those who cheered Pelosi’s hard line on the subject of the shutdown, refusing to budge even an inch on the border wall in order to force the president to re-open the government without concessions on the part of Democrats, Pelosi’s favorables tanked during her standoff.
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1089530472668061696
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In the previous poll, Pelosi had nearly a 50% approval rating. In the most recent poll, that number tanked nearly 20 points, leaving her competing for "least liked politician" with the president, whose numbers moved only twelve points.
Those who reported having a "negative view" of Pelosi increased by six points, even as both Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's numbers stayed relatively the same.
Pelosi certainly believes she won the faceoff, telling CNN (https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/24/nancy-pelosi-government-shutdown-failed-vote-sot-vpx.cnn) on Friday of last week that the shutdown was a "crisis Trump created," after the president called off the nearly five-week-long stalemate, even though neither side had changed position since December on the issue of his border wall. News media also quickly declared Pelosi the primary victor, and crowned the Democrats the "winners."
But the NBC/WSJ poll shows that there was a cost to the Democrats' calculation and that Trump isn't shouldering the blame for the shutdown — and the resulting non-agreement — alone. Trump may take the brunt of constituent anger, but that anger is mixed between those who feel Trump used the wrong strategy to take on the new Democratic House majority and those who believe Trump gave in on a key campaign promise — a strict, hard line on immigration.
More at: https://www.dailywire.com/news/42736/one-politician-lost-big-government-shutdown-and-it-emily-zanotti
In a strange twist of fate that must befuddle those who cheered Pelosi’s hard line on the subject of the shutdown, refusing to budge even an inch on the border wall in order to force the president to re-open the government without concessions on the part of Democrats, Pelosi’s favorables tanked during her standoff.
https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1089530472668061696
1089530472668061696
In the previous poll, Pelosi had nearly a 50% approval rating. In the most recent poll, that number tanked nearly 20 points, leaving her competing for "least liked politician" with the president, whose numbers moved only twelve points.
Those who reported having a "negative view" of Pelosi increased by six points, even as both Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's numbers stayed relatively the same.
Pelosi certainly believes she won the faceoff, telling CNN (https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/01/24/nancy-pelosi-government-shutdown-failed-vote-sot-vpx.cnn) on Friday of last week that the shutdown was a "crisis Trump created," after the president called off the nearly five-week-long stalemate, even though neither side had changed position since December on the issue of his border wall. News media also quickly declared Pelosi the primary victor, and crowned the Democrats the "winners."
But the NBC/WSJ poll shows that there was a cost to the Democrats' calculation and that Trump isn't shouldering the blame for the shutdown — and the resulting non-agreement — alone. Trump may take the brunt of constituent anger, but that anger is mixed between those who feel Trump used the wrong strategy to take on the new Democratic House majority and those who believe Trump gave in on a key campaign promise — a strict, hard line on immigration.
More at: https://www.dailywire.com/news/42736/one-politician-lost-big-government-shutdown-and-it-emily-zanotti