“As the government shutdown enters its second month, President Trump continues to carry the bulk of the blame among voters for the stalemate,” said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president. | Pete Marovich/Getty Images POLITICO/Morning Consult Poll Poll: Shutdown, Russia drive Trump to all-time high disapproval

President Donald Trump's disapproval rating is at an all-time high amid a historically long partial government shutdown and concerns about the president's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

Nearly 6-in-10 voters — 57 percent — disapprove of Trump's job performance, compared to the 40 percent that approve. In addition, 54 percent of voters blame Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill for the government shutdown. Only 35 percent blame congressional Democrats.


There has been no progress on negotiations between Republican and Democratic leaders, as well as the president, to end the government shutdown — the longest partial government shutdown in history. Trump has not backed down from his request of $5.7 billion for his border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, which Democrats have not agreed to.

“As the government shutdown enters its second month, President Trump continues to carry the bulk of the blame among voters for the stalemate,” said Tyler Sinclair, Morning Consult’s vice president. “In this week’s poll nearly half of voters (49 percent) say the president is responsible — up 6 points since the shutdown began. At the same time, 35 percent of voters blame blame congressional Democrats, up 4 points, while 4 percent of voters blame congressional Republicans, down 3 points.”

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According to the poll, 43 percent support the construction of a border wall compared to 49 percent who oppose construction.

On the issue of Russia, a majority of voters believe that Russia has incriminating information against the president.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating whether Russia colluded with Trump’s 2016 campaign or with individuals tied to the president. The New York Times also reported this month that the FBI began investigating the Trump amid suspicion that he was acting as a Russian agent after the president fired then-FBI Director James Comey. Mueller's probe has taken over that investigation.

According to the poll, 57 percent believe it’s likely that Russia “has compromising information“ on Trump, compared to 31 percent who don't think it's likely.

The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll was conducted Jan. 18-22, surveying 1,996 registered voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Morning Consult is a nonpartisan media and technology company that provides data-driven research and insights on politics, policy and business strategy.

More details on the poll and its methodology can be found in these two documents — Toplines: https://politi.co/2HtE4wk | Crosstabs: https://politi.co/2HtUmVM

CLARIFICATION: An earlier version of this story mischaracterized several poll responses.





The story originally reported that only 7 percent of voters said that they support dedicating funding to a border wall if it was the only way to end the government shutdown and 72 percent oppose. That question was not asked among all voters, but more narrowly among voters who said they oppose the construction of the border wall.





The 34 percent who said they approve of dedicating funds to border security, but not for a wall, if it was the only way to end the shutdown, were not drawn from the entire sample but rather from among those who support construction of a border wall. The same is true of the 51 percent who oppose dedicating funds.

