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51% Want Government Shutdown to Continue
— Rasmussen Reports (@Rasmussen_Poll) October 21, 2025
A narrow majority of voters – including two-thirds of Democrats – are in favor of having the current government shutdown continue. Full story is in the comments... pic.twitter.com/OacAiujsX7
| CNN looks at the bigger picture: |
🚨 HOLY CRAP! CNN reveals the devastating news that the Schumer federal shutdown not only HASN'T HARMED President Trump's public support...
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 20, 2025
...his approval rating has INCREASED!
"In the 2018/2019 [shutdown], Trump's approval rating was down 3 points! THIS shutdown hasn't eaten… pic.twitter.com/5FvYON8Jqn
…hasn't eaten into his support AT ALL! His net approval rating is actually UP a point!"
"This one is NOT hurting at all!" 🤯
"The question of blame? [...] Blame Trump for the shutdown, a great deal. 2018-2019? 61%! It's now a DIFFERENT WORLD - 48%!"
"It's less than HALF - a drop of 13 points. It's no real wonder Donald Trump says, 'You know what, it's not harming me politically.'"
Chuck is fuming.
| Townhall adds perspective: |
...every time you hear the phrase white people,
white supremacy,
whiteanything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word
(Thomas) Nastyto the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
are losing the messaging battle on the Schumer Shutdown.
"I read a poll this morning that said, you know, a lot of Americans are starting to blame Democrats for the government shutdown. And it's just simply because Republicans are better at messaging than Democrats will ever be," Charlamagne said to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, on her podcast, The Best People. "I can't believe Democrats still haven't figured out how to message. But right now, at a time when American people are hurting, and they can point directly to the Trump administration to say, earlier in the year, it was DOGE cutting all the federal jobs. Now they are in charge of every branch of government, and it's the government shutdown and all of y'all are losing jobs,"
The Schumer Shutdown has entered its third week standing as the third longest government shutdown in U.S. history. To date, it has cost American taxpayers more than eight billion dollars. Democrats refuse to negotiate on the temporary funding bill, arguing that they need to secure expanded Obamacare
...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
benefits before moving forward. Those expanded subsidies for the Affordable Care Act would allow states to fund healthcare for illegal im
"Republicans have beat it in people's head that it's Democrats' fault, and Democrats are taking credit for it, because they're saying, 'No, yeah, we are the reason the government is shut down, but we're doing it because we didn't want your healthcare prices to get jacked up.' So they're taking a stand, but it's hurting a whole lot of other people while this stand is being took." he continued.
The radio host also took a shot at MSNBC, who has accused him of repeating MAGA talking points, when he identified that voters nationwide are in fact concerned about an open U.S. border.
"You know, you can't just ignore people's criticisms of the border and chalk it up to MAGA messaging. I'll never forget when MSNBC did that to me. And MSNBC did that to me based off me listening to people, me listening to people in New York City, listening to people in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
, activists in Chicago, and them telling me what their issues with the border were."
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