Even so, the wall still isn’t popular in Michigan or Pennsylvania, important battleground states. None of these polls account for the government shutdown, but attitudes about it are unlikely to be particularly fluid, given the lack of movement on the wall during the Trump presidency. Tying the issue to an unpopular shutdown seems particularly unlikely to help and, historically, voters tend to drift against the policy preferences of the president’s party. That’s already evident on immigration more generally: Polls show voters more supportive of immigration than ever before. By that measure, it’s hard to see where a shutdown over the wall fits in.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2019 10:00 UTC