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Emboldened Democrats dig in on health care demands in shutdown fight (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 5 months ago by gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Eight days into the government shutdown, Senate Democratic communications directors received a private briefing and a memo from pollster Geoff Garin.

The crux of the message: Stay the course because Democrats are winning the battle of public opinion.

“Voters continue to blame Trump and Republicans more than Democrats for the shutdown,” said the memo, which was obtained by NBC News and featured new polling data conducted by Hart Research, with findings that are backed by other public national surveys on the shutdown fight.

It added that voters are siding with Democrats’ health care funding demands, that Republicans are starting to "feel the heat” on the issue and that the GOP’s political pain will worsen “the longer and more aggressively” Democrats litigate it.

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[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

If the Republicans want to open the government so bad why don't they just vote yes on the Democrats bill?