During a closed-door lunch with his GOP colleagues Wednesday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz unveiled polling results suggesting that his efforts to defund Obamacare have actually helped the Republicans in dealing with the ongoing government shutdown, not hurt them.
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The WashingtonExaminer reports:
The survey’s findings mirrored other national polls: More voters blame the Republicans for the government shutdown than blame President Obama or the Democrats. But Cruz argued, based on the poll, that Republicans are in a much better position than they were during the 1995 shutdown because this impasse is defined by a disagreement over funding for the Affordable Care Act as opposed to a general disagreement over government spending.That is notable because, during last week’s conservative luncheon, Cruz was harshly criticized for pushing Republicans into a politically risky government shutdown without a strategy to win the standoff, particularly because polls have consistently shown that voters oppose the defund-or-shut down strategy favored by the senator, despite the fact that they disapprove of Obamacare.
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