Democrats are struggling to shift blame for the three-week government shutdown onto Republicans \u2014 and it\u2019s backfiring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Polls show the \u201cSchumer Shutdown\u201d hurting them, with their own internal data<\/p>\n\n\n\n
revealing voters split nearly evenly on who\u2019s at fault: 45% blame Republicans, 42% blame Democrats. Even worse, that gap is narrowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The leaked poll, shared with Punchbowl\u2019s Jake Sherman, highlights what many already suspect:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Americans aren\u2019t buying the Democrats\u2019 narrative. Most people view shutdowns as political theater, not real crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShutdowns are just noise,\u201d the article notes, adding that everyday life remains largely unaffected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even CNN\u2019s Harry Enten pointed out that President Trump\u2019s approval rating<\/p>\n\n\n\n
has risen<\/em> slightly during the standoff \u2014 hardly the outcome Democrats expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Their effort to paint the GOP as villains has instead exposed growing voter frustration with both parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As numbers slide, Democrats\u2019 gamble on the shutdown looks increasingly self-defeating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democrats are struggling to shift blame for the three-week government shutdown onto Republicans \u2014 and it\u2019s backfiring. Polls show the \u201cSchumer Shutdown\u201d hurting them, with their own internal data revealing voters split nearly evenly on who\u2019s at fault: 45% blame Republicans, 42% blame Democrats. Even worse, that gap is narrowing. The leaked poll, shared with…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8272,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8270\/revisions\/8272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}