https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-americans-support-border-wall_us_5c2e9aaae4b05c88b70798d1 Trump Says Country Wants Border Wall, But That’s Not What Polls Say And opponents can’t call the White House switchboard to let the president know because it’s not working due to the government shutdown. President Donald Trump insisted again Thursday that there’s “so much support” his border wall. But polls contradict him. “The people of our country want it,” Trump declared at a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room Thursday to plead for the wall (see the video above at 2:20). “I have never had so much support as I have in the last week over my stance for border security ... or, frankly, the wall or the barrier. I have never had anything like it in terms of calls coming in, in terms of people writing in and tweeting. I’ve never had this much support,” he added. Trump was apparently referring to personal calls he has received. Neither the White House switchboard nor the call-in phone line to leave recorded comments is functioning because of the government shutdown. “We apologize, but due to the lapse in federal funding, we are unable to take your call,” a recorded message on the switchboard states. But no poll has found that a majority of Americans support the wall or funding for the wall, or see it as a priority. A Quinnipiac poll of 1,147 voters reached on landlines or cell phones from Dec. 12-17 found that 54 percent of respondents opposed the wall and 43 percent supported it. A Harvard CAPS/Harris online survey of 1,407 registered voters conducted Dec. 24-26 found that 56 percent of those surveyed did not support a wall, while 44 percent did. Just 35 percent of those surveyed supported including money for the wall in a federal spending bill, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 2,440 adults conducted online Dec. 21-25. More than two-thirds of Americans don’t think the wall should be a priority, according to a poll of 1,075 adults by NPR, PBS News Hour and Marist. That poll was conducted Nov. 28-Dec. 4 using live telephone interviews to reach both landlines and cell phones. Regardless of Americans’ opinions about the wall, they’re not happy with how the government shutdown is being handled by either Congress or Trump. Just 18 percent of Americans polled say they approve of how Congress has handled the shutdown, with 60 percent disapproving, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. As for Trump, 38 percent approve of how he’s handling it, and 49 percent disapprove, according to the poll.
https://www.businessinsider.com/gov...tez-ideas-for-trump-border-wall-money-2018-12 Most Americans would rather spend the $5 billion Trump is demanding for the border wall on infrastructure, education, or healthcare President Donald Trump pushed the US government into a partial shutdown over his demands for border-wall funding. Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggested some alternative uses for Trump's demands for $5.7 billion toward the wall. INSIDER polled people on alternative uses of the $5.7 billion in border wall funding, and most preferred other ideas, including infrastructure improvements, covering a half-million Americans' healthcare expenses, and expanded pre-K education. The only group that supported the wall was conservatives, while border money came in last for moderates and liberals. As the partial government shutdown drags on into its sixth day, President Donald Trump has remained steadfast in his demands that $5 billion for a wall along the US-Mexico border be included in any package to funding and reopening the government. "Have the Democrats finally realized that we desperately need Border Security and a Wall on the Southern Border," Trump tweeted Thursday. "Need to stop Drugs, Human Trafficking, Gang Members & Criminals from coming into our Country." But according to an INSIDER poll, most Americans would prefer to put the $5 billion Trump is demanding toward other policy goals. At the start of the government shutdown, Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lamented House Republicans inclusion of $5.7 billion in border-wall money in their doomed funding package. "And just like that, GOP discovers $5.7 billion for a wall. $5.7 billion," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "What if we instead added $5.7B in teacher pay? Or replacing water pipes? Or college tuition/prescription refill subsidies? Or green jobs? But notice how no one's asking the GOP how they're paying for it." In response to Ocasio-Cortez's tweet, Washington Post writer Jeff Stein suggested a few alternatives for the $5.7 billion in funding, including funding pre-kindergarten education for every child in the US or covering the healthcare expenses for hundreds of thousands of Americans over the course of the year. INSIDER polled these alternatives against funding for the wall and found that the wall was not a particularly popular option. Conducted as a SurveyMonkey Audience poll with 1,025 respondents that ran December 21-22, INSIDER asked respondents, "What is the best use of $5.7 billion in federal funding?" and offered four options: "build a portion of a wall along the US-Mexico border" "fund pre-kindergarten programs for every child in the US for a year" "pay the healthcare expenses for roughly 530,000 Americans for a year" "fund infrastructure improvements" The figures were based on Stein's estimates for the utility of $5.7 billion in different areas of administration and calculations based on the most healthcare spending data. Only 19% of respondents thought the wall was the best use of that funding.
Use the polls of how much of the country want a border wall before Trump ran for office. The polls today are filled with people with TDS. Also remember those are the same pollsters that said Hillary had a 98% to win the presidency. Nobody believes polls anymore. How many times are you going to get fooled by the polls?
Polls showed she would get more votes than Trump,she got 3 million more votes.The person who gets the most votes wins around 90% of the time.Just because Trump is one of the lucky 10% doesn't mean the polls or odds were wrong.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/fi...oint-edge-final-national-nbc-wsj-poll-n931001 Democrats hold 7-point edge in final national NBC/WSJ poll Fifty percent of likely voters say they prefer a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 43 percent want Republicans in charge. https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...55347f48762_story.html?utm_term=.1a85de9d0dd2 A Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday showed that 50 percent of registered voters prefer Democratic House candidates, compared with 43 percent for Republicans. https://www.axios.com/2018-midterm-...gin-a56a1049-8823-4667-8d81-2c67ef3f36f4.html Democrats won the House with the largest midterms margin of all time Democrats took control of the House this year with the largest midterms margin of victory in history, surpassing the previous record of 8.7 million votes in 1974, according to NBC News election data.
Why you can't do that? Why jump to your favorite conclusion of "TDS" instead? And maybe you are ignorant about statistics, but a 98% forecast doesn't mean that the 2% is impossible. You don't believe the polls because you don't understand them.
Pundits said Hillary had what I recall to be around a 90 % chance of winning,not pollsters.Please post a link to any polling organizations that said Hillary had a 98% to win the presidency. Thanks.
https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/2016/forecast/president http://election.princeton.edu/2016/...-clinton-323-ev-51-di-senate-seats-gop-house/ There's a couple for you.
Do you understand statistics? A low probability of something happening doesn't mean that it cannot happen. And given with the margins that Trump 'won' (ignoring the collusion, Russian interference and Comey's intervention) with -3 million votes nationally with +80000 in swing states - which is what the national polls were based on, the polls were perfectly right