Everyone's image has taken a hit. Fabrizio reports that Trump's favorability rating has slipped from 78 percent among Republicans in June to 71 percent now.
Trump's need to always say its someone else's fault seems to be working:
Ryan's favorability has dropped from 56 percent to 52 percent in that period. McConnell has slipped the most, however. The Kentucky senator was viewed favorably by 38 percent of Republicans and unfavorably by 30 percent in Fabrizio's June survey. Now he's viewed favorably by 27 percent and unfavorably by 44 percent. Again, this is among Republicans.
Trump's approval rating is 75 percent among Republicans in Fabrizio's poll, but just 54 percent approve of the job Republicans in Congress are doing.
Asked who they blame more for the failure to repeal and replace Obamacare, 18 percent picked Trump and 82 percent picked Republicans in Congress.*
Alas, Trump has given up on his joke that Mexico will pay for the border wall, but he really wants the wall as a monument to himself and it has little to do with his base. When he addresses his rally now, he has to say "Who will eventually pay for the wall?" the crowd can still yell back "Mexico" but it won't have the same ring.-- Only about 1 in 3 Americans want to build the border wall, but they happen to be the same people who still support Trump. Even the right-wing polling firm Rasmussen, whose results skew Republican, found in an automated national poll last month that 56 percent of Americans oppose building a border wall "to help stop illegal immigration," while 37 percent back it. A more reliable survey from the nonpartisan Pew Research Center showed in February that 35 percent support the wall and 62 percent oppose it.*
McConnell continues the Republican orthodoxy that that they are trying to create jobs, but jobs are incidental to trying to grow the economy.
McConnell's statement mentioned a host of "shared goals" that he is in "regular touch" with the administration about, including the budget, but notably he omitted any mention of the border wall: "We are working together to develop tax reform and infrastructure legislation so we can grow the economy and create jobs; to prevent a government default; to fund the government so we can advance our priorities in the short and long terms; to pass the defense authorization and defense appropriations bills so we can support our troops and help implement an effective strategy against ISIL; to provide relief from Obamacare; and to continue our progress for our nation's veterans."*
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2017/08/24/daily-202-trump-s-border-wall-brinkmanship-may-leave-republicans-in-congress-holding-the-bag/599e285130fb0435b8208fa7/?utm_term=.c1a2fca2a871
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