The political fallout from the longest government shutdown in history is beginning to sway public opinion.  According to at least five polls averaged in a CNN  report , President Donald Trump's job approval rating stands at 37% approving with 57% of Americans disapproving.

The same average of polls before the shutdown had the President's numbers at 41% to 51%.

A majority of Americans are also placing blame for the government shutdown on the president with only a third blaming congressional Democrats.  "Trump continues to be widely loved by most Republican voters," said Alex Conant, a Republican Strategist and partner at Firehouse Strategies.

"Where he's really suffered, is obviously Democratic voters, but also independent voters where many of them supported him early on but now they see the government shutdown dragging on and they're really losing confidence in his leadership abilities." A  Fox News  poll has President Trump's approval rating at 43% down three points since December.

While the approval rating for Congress sits at 18% for the same poll from down from 23% in October.  "You have congressional Democrats who are just weeks into their new majority and they want to move on to their actual agenda," Conant said.

"I think that  they are frustrated, that they're spending the first month in power not passing any meaningful legislation." Senate Republicans and Democrats voted on alternate plans to re-open the government but neither proposal gained enough support to to move forward.  "I think in the last few days, all sides are feeling pressure from the public to do something, neither wants to appear completely intransigent." Conant says the President has 2020 on his mind as the border wall funding fight wages on.

"We're in the election season, every week there's another Democrat announcing that they're running for president," Conant added.

"And I think he views this fight as key to sort of setting the table for going into 2020, if he losses this fight, he's very weak running for re-election."