a majority of americans disapproved of trump's emergency declaration. three national surveys in february 2019 showed that between 51% and 61% of americans opposed the declaration, with between 36% and 39% supporting it. these figures generally reflected trump's overall job approval ratings. support and opposition was highly polarized by political party: in a marist poll, 94% of democrats and 62% of independents, but only 12% of republicans, disapproved of trump's declaration of a national emergency to build a wall.