point, how they re frustrated the wall hasn t been built and they know many supporters, that was one of their single issues. probably their single issue. what do you do if you can t legally do something and a campaign is approaching? you claim it s being done. they ve sent out millions of these press releases that they claim the wall is already being built. but they re refurbishing an existing wall. but they re claiming that this is new walls. because they know, i guess they re worried that this is such a big campaign promise. there s no doubt he s going to continue to use immigration as his number one issue. he wouldn t be diverting money from fema ahead of a hurricane if they didn t believe that that was their rock solid issue. he ll do what he s done on everything. he ll either make up facts. or, you know, he ll do what john was talking about. he ll tell people, break the
out. that s clear by how he is behaving on twitter, how he is behaving, reportedly, with staff, and in the white house. and we can see that even by his, how frantic he is about building the wall. as we just saw in some of the reporting, new wall hasn t been built, he s trying to transfer money, it doesn t matter that there is a storm headed toward puerto rico and sometimes he tells you exactly what he is thinking, and in this case, he is worried about 2020, he knows his supporters want the wall, he wants that chant at the rallies coming up next year, so he is clearly feeling the heat about 2020, and the election, and that s always been front and, first and foremost in his mind and he is seeing polls of a lot of democrats beating him and i think it is clear what is happening. that is one of the things going on with the polls. the poll that came out today from quinnipiac university on the economy, just looking tat from the point of view of a reporter, but more importantly, hearing abou
fight on possibly. because, you know, another obstacle for the president has been the border wall all week long. an appeals court upholding a lower court s block against using pentagon money to build the wall. so this was trump s signature campaign issue, joseph. he s promising 2016. how big of a problem will a lack of progress on his wall be with his base heading into next year? i think, obviously, it s going to be a problem the wall hasn t been built. having said that, i think that s why you see the exhaustive efforts being made by president trump and the administration to act as if they have basically done everything within the legal per view and pushing some of those legal limits to get it done. i think, you know, this is clearly a battle trusted strategy for him. i think irrespective of what happened in the midterms, we saw there was pushback there. i think there are people still inside the trump administration who believe that pushing this bringsmanship, when it comes to immigr
2020. does it still work following a deal like this? they sure think it does. if you watched his rally in el paso, what were the giant signs hanging from the rafters finish the wall. the wall hasn t been started so i don t know what that means. the president has a history of trashing legislation, signing it and not really owning it. his alternative is another government shutdown. politically what s better for the president now to sign the legislation, move on and launch a p.r. offensive against it and run against congress in 2020 or be blamed for another government shutdown? i don t think trump believes that he came out of the government shutdown politically stronger. that was the period where his popularity was eroding really fast.
position. when asked who they trusted more on border security, democrats and congress were ahead of trump by five moinpoints. in other words, not only is the president losing on the border wall but he s also losing on safety and security. losing the battle, losing the war. if you re nancy pelosi, you don t see the need to blink first. that s always been the concern for many democrats and the hope among many republicans is, once we get onto this ishsu of just broadly security, democrats will splinter because you ll get advice people and the city people competing with the more modern suburban democrats worried that this can get them to be painted too extremist on security. here we are a month into this. the president s numbers have dropped. the support for the wall hasn t gone anywhere. democrats are more united in their opposition to the wall than republicans are united, polls are showing, among regular voters united against