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In some candid statements during an appearance on ABC’s This Week, where she claimed to be speaking for average Americans, Washington Post national correspondent Mary Jordan suggested that not only did they want the government shutdown to end, they wanted to ditch the border wall idea and just let the migrants cross into America.
“Do you think the President understands the impact of this partial government shutdown? I mean, we’re hearing from people it really does affect,” fill-in host and chief foreign affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz exclaimed, teeing Jordan up.
Jordan thought, “no”, President Trump didn’t understand how the shutdown was affecting people. “What people are saying are ‘stop it, just stop the political game’. This is all about politics. It's really not about the wall,” she claimed with no evidence.
She suggested it was “silly to blame the Democrats about this” and argued it was just a massive distraction campaign to draw attention away from the Russia investigation and other bad news items like the economy:
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