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#388: How Trump Backers View the President Now

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🗓️ 1 February 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Building a wall on the southern border was President Donald Trump’s key campaign pledge -- and his supporters are serious about it. So how do Trump voters view the recent shutdown over wall funding? We talk to Anne Sorock of The Frontier Lab -- she’s got some interesting polling data that paints a helpful picture of where the president’s base is. Plus: We look at The Washington Post's media bias on abortion this week. We also cover these stories:•Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is speaking out against House Democrats' bill that "would make Election Day a new paid holiday for government workers."•Pennsylvania confirms that over 11,000 non-citizens were registered to vote in that state.•A California restaurant owner says he will refuse to serve any customer who’s wearing a MAGA hat.The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, February 1st.

0:08.8

I'm Kate Trinco, and I'm Daniel Davis.

0:11.3

Building a wall on the southern border was President Trump's number one campaign pledge,

0:16.1

and his supporters are serious about it.

0:18.2

So how do Trump voters view the recent shutdown over wall funding?

0:21.8

We'll talk to Anne Soroc of the Frontier Lab. She's got some

0:24.9

interesting polling data that paints a helpful picture of where the president's

0:28.4

base is. She'll unpack the details. Plus we'll take a look at the media blackout over Virginia's

0:34.0

radical abortion bill. But first we'll cover a few of the top headlines. Well with

0:40.9

two weeks to go before government funding runs out, members of Congress are negotiating

0:45.2

a package to fund the government and address border security.

0:48.9

And President Trump is holding his ground.

0:51.2

Here's what he said on Thursday morning in the Oval Office.

0:53.6

Nancy Pelosi said this morning that there is not going to be a wall in this deal, but she did say

0:59.6

she'd be open to other kinds of physical barriers. Would you accept that?

1:03.0

No, because if there's no wall, it doesn't work. She's just playing games.

1:06.8

So if there's no wall, it doesn't work. And we're building the wall right now.

1:11.0

I mean, a lot of people don't know that,

1:12.5

but we have a lot of wall under construction.

1:14.5

We've given out a lot of contracts over the last three, four weeks,

1:17.1

good contracts.

1:17.9

A lot of wall is soon going to be under construction.

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