WINNING: Just 2% of People Say Trump’s Oval Office Address Changed Their Minds About Wall

The reviews are in, and Donald Trump‘s primetime Oval Office address last week “succeeded” in convincing a whopping two percent of Americans to change their minds about his border wall, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.

When asked “Did President Trump’s recent televised address to the nation change your mind about building a wall along the border with Mexico, or not?” only 2 percent responded “yes,” while 89 percent said no, and the remaining 9 percent hadn’t heard enough or didn’t answer.

The poll did not ask how respondents had changed their minds, leaving open the possibility that Trump actually talked a few Americans out of supporting a wall. The poll also had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percent, which means Trump could have changed as few as zero minds, or as many as 5.3 percent.

Respondents also believed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) rebuttal over Trump’s address by a margin of 46 to 36 percent.

According to Quinnipiac’s press release, Americans were very clear in their views of the wall, and those views were overwhelmingly negative:

American voters are negative in every question about the wall, saying:

59 – 40 percent that it is not a good use of taxpayer dollars;
55 – 43 percent that the wall would not make the U.S. safer;
59 – 40 percent that the wall is not necessary to protect the border;
52 percent say the wall is against American values as 41 percent say the wall is consistent with American values.

Finally, the poll found that Americans oppose shutting down the government over funding for the wall by a two-to-one margin, and 56 percent blame Trump and the Republicans for the shutdown.

The shutdown is now the longest in American history, but if Trump is stalling in the hopes that Americans will change their minds about his border wall, this poll indicates that he could be in for a very long wait.