Democrats can’t seem to get out of their own way regarding their effort to try to somehow blame the current three-week government shutdown on Republicans. Their latest effort is a great big fail, and worse, they did it to themselves.

Democrats are taking it on the chin over the Schumer Shutdown — and it shows in the generic-ballot polls. The numbers are sliding, and they know it. Still, they keep parroting the line that Americans somehow blame Donald Trump and the GOP for refusing to pass a “clean” continuing resolution. It’s pure spin, and everyone outside the MSNBC bubble knows it.

Anyone with even a passing grasp of how Congress works understands that Democrats are the ones blocking funding, hiding behind filibusters, and then crying foul when Republicans call them out. But because the truth doesn’t serve their narrative, they’re doing what they do best — cooking up “data” to make it look like the public’s on their side.

Today, Democrats tried to save face by leaking the results of their own internal polling to Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman — and let’s just say it didn’t exactly bolster their narrative: READ MORE BELOW