Quiet concerns emerge in Trump's orbit over shutdown

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President Donald Trump believed the government shutdown would deliver Republicans a swift and decisive political victory. But with the stalemate now likely to spill into a second week, that calculation is looking increasingly shaky.

The opening stage of the high-profile funding fight has emboldened Democratic lawmakers and left voters split over who to blame for the impasse, raising quiet concerns within Trump’s orbit that the politics of the shutdown may prove more complicated than they initially hoped.

Democrats are still largely unified behind their demands, defying some Republicans’ predictions they would quickly fold under pressure. In early polling, Americans are just as likely to fault Trump as they are congressional Democrats.

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White House officials trumpeted early polling showing Democrats would mainly be held responsible for triggering the first extended shutdown since 2018. Yet a Washington Post poll on Thursday blunted some of that momentum, finding that 47% of respondents were blaming Trump and the GOP compared with just 30% blaming Democrats.

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