WSJ’s Seib on Shutdown: Consensus Is Dems Got Burned and Will Pay the Price

‘There were times which Republicans thought they had gotten burned in a shutdown scenario and did fine in the next election’

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SEIB: "That’s the classic Washington question. The consensus at the moment is Democrats got burned and they will pay the price. I think we’ve also learned having gone through these things over the years that the way that looks now may be different by November when election rolls around. There were times which Republicans thought they had gotten burned in a shutdown scenario and did fine in the next election. My guess is, the answer to your question really doesn’t turn on what has happened so far but what happens over the next few weeks. Is this resolved? Do Democrats get out of this process a deal on the dreamers that they can take to their base and say we succeeded here and do Republicans — are Republicans allowed to say we got in return for that the kind of things on other border issues, on the wall, on chain migration, and the Visa lottery system that the president demanded? It may be both parties walk away from this saying we got what we really needed out of this deal."

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