62% of Americans Believe Republicans Will ‘Win Government Shutdown,’ New Poll Shows

62% of Americans believe Republicans will come out ahead of Democrats in the government shutdown battle, a new Harvard-Harris poll reveals.

Democrats are holding out over continued healthcare subsidies left over from the COVID-19 pandemic.

They are blaming the GOP for not acquiescing to their demands to pass funding.

Democrats, such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), apparently believe they have a winning strategy by refusing to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government open.

Unfortunately for them, the American people see right through this.

A graph of the survey results shared by journalist Eric Daugherty demonstrates exactly how wrong they are, Breitbart reported.

Captioning the graph in a post on X, Daugherty wrote:

“BREAKING: It was just revealed that a whopping 62% of Americans say Republicans and President Trump will WIN the government shutdown battle — only 38% say Democrats, per Harvard-Harris. Lmao, it’s OVER.”

🚨 BREAKING: It was just revealed that a whopping 62% of Americans say Republicans and President Trump will WIN the government shutdown battle — only 38% say Democrats, per Harvard-Harris.

Lmao, it’s OVER. 😂 pic.twitter.com/ud8uaM6n8M

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) October 6, 2025

The pollsters surveyed 2,413 registered voters between October 1 and 2 to ask about their views on who they thought would prevail in the fight over the government shutdown.

“Who do you think will win the government shutdown — the Democrats or the Republicans?” the poll posited.

The results confirmed that a majority believed Republicans would win.

Meanwhile, just 38% thought Democrats would be the victors.

When further broken down by party affiliation, a full 92% of Republicans believed the GOP would prevail, while 70% of Democrats thought their side would win.

Independents matched the overall results, with 62% believing Republicans would win the showdown after all.

Nevertheless, Democrats seem committed to the continuation of the shutdown by framing it as a fight over healthcare.

At the same time, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) called them out on this intentional conflation of the issue of funding the government for its current needs with extracting more benefits from taxpayers.

After all, Republicans have proposed a bill that would keep everything funded and moving forward while negotiating the next budget deal for the end of the year.

Democrats are not interested in that and are being duplicitous in their dealings with the American people as to why they haven’t struck a deal.

Explaining that the GOP has a “clean” bill that Democrats refuse to pass, Johnson said during a Monday news conference:

“I want you to look at the real facts, keep the lights on, and keep the government open so that appropriators can finish this very healthy process for the people they represent.

“Why do we say it’s clean?

“Because there’s nothing to it,” Johnson explained.

“It’s 24 pages. It’s the bare minimum.

“It just says, keep the status quo.”

Johnson went on to explain the Democrats’ aim in holding out.

“They created a red herring,” Johnson said.

“A red herring is a distraction.

“They decided that they would pick a fight on healthcare.

“Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly, Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare.”

“There’s a lot of thoughtful debate and discussion that has already been going on about that, and will go on about it, but that’s a December 31 issue,” Johnson later explained, referring to the date a later budget bill could be passed if Democrats would simply continue current funding levels.

“So, Chuck Schumer is scrambling.

“He has to have an issue,” Johnson said.

“They’re two totally separate things.

“The clean continuing resolution would simply keep the lights on so that the members in the House and Senate can have those debates on health care.

“We were always planning it.

“We have lots of ideas on the table on how to fix it, but we don’t yet have a consensus on it because it’s very complicated.

“We have time to do it,” Johnson said.

Even if Democrats think this is a winning strategy, Fox News reported that Trump could ultimately have the last laugh because the shutdown gives him the ability to make permanent cuts.

“We may do a lot,” Trump said when asked whether he would lay off federal workers.

Democrats have not learned from their mistakes and are attempting to use their tired playbook that lost them the presidency, Congress, and offices likely down to dog catcher in some places.

The longer this goes on, the worse it gets, but Schumer and his ilk continue to dig in their heels just to oppose Trump.

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