government, but they want to make sure that republican base, the trump base, is with the president heading into 2019, a turbulent year with robert mueller s investigation, a divided government. this is as much as playing to the base and making sure they re with this president as much as securing funds for a border wall. and yet the numbers playing to that base doesn t seem to make a lot of sense. when you look at the polling you ve got only 33% of americans wanting to build the wall if mexico doesn t pay for it. almost 50% of americans blaming donald trump for the government shutdown. there s that third again. we keep seeing 3 3% blaming the democrats, 33% favoring the wall that mexico doesn t pay for.