By Kristine Marsh | January 14, 2019 10:41 AM EST
Monday on ABC’s Good Morning America, the network continued blasting Republicans and President Trump for the government shutdown while defending Democrats, touting their new poll which showed more Americans blamed the GOP instead of Democrats for the shutdown. However ABC’s credibility is shot on who is to blame for government shutdowns, as they eagerly defended President Obama in 2013 for the government shutdown that happened on his watch.
After a report from David Kerley showing airports being closed due to too many furloughed TSA workers not showing up, anchor George Stephanopoulos touted their new poll with the Washington Post revealing 53% of Americans blamed Republicans or Trump for the shutdown and 29% blamed Democrats. However, their new poll also showed a rising number of Americans, 42%, supported the border wall, a fact that Stephanopoulos downplayed. Instead, he suggested that most Americans wanted the GOP to cave on the border wall:
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