Fox’s Griff Jenkins Says Poll Showing Most Americans Oppose Wall Means Trump ‘Will Eventually Win’
As Donald Trump‘s government shutdown enters its 22nd day — the longest in U.S. history — a new poll shows a clear majority of Americans are opposed to Trump’s border wall, but on Fox News, that means Trump is winning.
On this week’s edition of Fox & Friends Sunday, the weekend team discussed a new Washington Post-ABC News poll that shows 54 percent of Americans oppose the border wall, while just 42 percent support it.
“Look at the numbers,” co-host Griff Jenkins said. “Look at the number of Republicans standing firm. 87% among Republicans supporting the wall, you know, that’s approaching 90%. That is a very strong number.”
Jenkins added that “if you go back and look quickly at the increase in the current poll, you have basically a plus-8 gain of support of all voters but then a negative 9 drop. So the movement, the tide is all moving towards the support for a wall, and that is fundamentally, undeniably a problem for the Democrat position that would suggest eventually President Trump will win the battle.”
“It’s taking time to educate,” co-host Pete Hegseth agreed.
That is, of course, not how polls work. Jenkins is describing a net gain of eight points over the course of an entire year, a year during which Trump and the Republicans relentlessly campaigned on the issue, and a year which followed several years of Trump relentlessly campaigning on the issue.
And a review of polling data dating back to the beginning of Trump’s term in office shows that support for Trump’s border wall has hovered between the mid-thirties and low-forties for two years now. A Gallup poll taken weeks after Trump’s inauguration showed 38 percent support for the wall. If Trump gains two percent a year, he’d “win” the battle sometime after the 2020 election.
But if the pattern holds, then a majority of Americans will continue to oppose the border wall.
One thing Jenkins is right about is that Republicans are sticking behind Trump. Whether that holds, and whether it helps, remains to be seen.
Watch the clip above, via Fox News.
