Why Democrats Are Super Bullish On Winning A Shutdown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : He will choose Trump over New Jersey every time.
44% : Their ransom note reads: 'Higher bills or closed doors -- pick one.'" Politics: Why Republicans Are Falsely Claiming Democrats Want Health Care For 'Illegal Aliens' Early polling on a shutdown supports this reading: An NPR/PBS/Marist Poll conducted in recent days found that 38% of Americans would blame Republicans, while 27% would blame Democrats, and 31% would blame both parties equally.
36% : Republicans did not manage to repeal Obamacare in 2013.
35% : "Susan Collins voted to support cutting Medicaid and raising health care costs," a female narrator says in a representative ad from Majority Forward, a nonprofit controlled by Schumer allies.
35% : They argue that both a shutdown would be terrible and suggest that it would give hardline Office of Management and Budget chief Russ Vought unprecedented power to cut federal spending and lay off even more federal workers.
34% : And compared to demands like a total repeal of Obamacare or the construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, voters see the Democratic ask for health care subsidies as reasonable.
34% : "We're doing well as a country, so the last thing we want to do is shut it down," Trump said on Tuesday in the Oval Office.
30% : The problem here is that Democrats do not actually believe the law is meaningfully holding back Vought or Trump from enacting cuts, particularly given their history of doing as they please, supported by a compliant conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
26% : Rep. Greg Casar, who chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, emphasized the only way to fully defeat Trump was at the ballot box.
25% : It's also not difficult to convince them that Trump, an unpopular president not exactly known for his level-headedness, is being unreasonable over demands that Democrats are framing as an attempt to bring down costs for everyday people.
23% : The ads generally tie the shutdown together with tariffs imposed by Trump and with cuts to Medicaid included in the GOP's budget law.
22% : But to suggest the major reason Democratic base voters are angry with Trump is his refusal to properly fund health care is foolhardy.
17% : They do good reason to think so: Polling generally indicates voters are ready to blame Trump and the Republicans for any shutdown.
17% : "But Donald Trump isn't going to pinky promise to the Democrats in a vote that he's going to stop being authoritarian.
15% : He's refused to name a single area where he disagrees with Trump and has already said he would never sue the Trump administration.
11% : We stop Donald Trump from being authoritarian by beating him.

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