WASHINGTON — A month and counting into the U.S. government shutdown, the longest on record, most major polls show President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans are bearing the brunt of the blame over the funding stalemate.

Those polls, coupled with Tuesday’s off-year election wins for Democrats, could put pressure on the majority party to broker a deal, political analysts told Newsday.

While congressional Democrats have also taken some polling hits since government funding lapsed on Oct. 1, Trump this week acknowledged the political pain the shutdown has inflicted on his party. He told Senate Republicans on Wednesday that he believed the impasse over a short-term spending bill played a role in Democrats racking up victories in statewide races in bellwether Virginia and increasin

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