A Republican senator couldn’t explain why he thought a Washington Post poll detrimental to his party and to President Donald Trump was “biased” during a CNN interview Friday.

Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall rejected the poll’s findings: that Americans blame the president and the GOP over Democrats for the government shutdown by a margin of 17 percent. Yet when anchor Brianna Keilar asked him for evidence, Marshall wasn’t up to the task.

“I would just discount that poll altogether, and that’s not what I’m hearing back home,” Marshall told the CNN News Central anchor, after claiming that “everybody realizes this is a Schumer shutdown... driven by [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez], and the Squad, and the liberal Marxist portion of the Democrat Party.”

Keilar followed up.

“Why do you discount

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