[Sciutto:] Day 27 of the government shutdown, nearly a month. Eight hundred thousand federal workers still not getting paid. Many struggling, as you would understand, to make ends meet.
[Harlow:] The impact being felt coast to coast
[Text:] Spotlight on Shutdown; Feeling the Effects; California [San Jose] Federal workers given short-term loans; Ohio [Cleveland] Food Stamp benefits sent out early; Maryland [Baltimore] TSA workers stage protests; North Carolina [Near Durham] School lunches reduced in one district; Florida [Miami] Coast Guard not getting paychecks; Georgia [Atlanta] Long lines as TSA workers call out sick; Colorado [Denver] Denver helps workers pay mortgages; California [Joshua Tree Nat Park] Trees destroyed in National Park
[Harlow:] as you hear every day on this network from people living it. A lot of folks trying to help. Short-term loans going out in California, food stamp benefits sent out early in Ohio.
[Sciutto:] All this as TSA protests and long security lines you may have seen them continue at airports around the country.
[Fabrizio Sasso, Executive Director, Sacramento Central Labor Council:] These families are struggling. It's hurting our communities. They're having they're having a hard time keeping the paying their bills and putting food on the table. And it's about time that government does something about it.
[Sciutto:] CNN's Vanessa Yurkevich is in Ohio. That's a state that Trump won by eight points in 2016. So when you're there, you're asking people about they're what they're going through. What are they telling you? And who do they blame?
[Vanessa Yurkevich, Cnn Digital Correspondent:] Well, the Trump supporters in this area are still very much behind the president, Jim and Poppy. This is an area that, like you said, overwhelmingly supported the president in 2016. The president even came to this area of Canton, Ohio and campaigned. He was also able to deliver on some promises here. People are feeling a little bit more money in their paycheck. They're seeing more money in their 401 [k]. Right now, we're at a local restaurant and ice cream shop, Taggart's, which is getting ready to open for lunch. But we caught the dinner crowd last night, and we spoke to some Trump supporters about how they're feeling about the president and how the shutdown is affecting their take on him.
[Richard Pero, Retired Dairy Farmer:] I support him hanging in there as long as he can, until we can see what see what happens. But I think he's going to be successful at it too, in the long run. I don't know. We'll see. I thought he was going to be president, and that worked out.
[Tammy Corregan, Worker, Electric Company:] Yes, I want security. I do. But not at the price of what's going on.
[Unidentified Male:] Other people?
[Corregan:] Yes. Of their lives, you know? Yes. I like I'd like the border, you know, be secure better, whether it's a wall or more hire more people to help, you know, patrol it. That's great, but we have to get our fellow Americans back to work.
[Yurkevich:] So would you say to the president, "Let's table this for a second until we can get the government back up and running"
[Corregan:] Yes.
[Yurkevich:] and then let's start with this fight again?
[Corregan:] Yes, yes. Yes. Let's come together as Americans. We can figure this out.
[Yurkevich:] And you heard from Tammy there, that she's really feeling for her fellow Americans. But President Trump won here largely because he promised to bring back the steel industry, and he was able to do that in many ways, by providing more jobs in the area. But I asked Richard and Tammy how they felt about 2020. Would the president get their support? For Richard, it was a definite yes. For Tammy, she said she was willing to look at the field, Jim and Poppy, and might even vote for a Democrat. And that is important because this state is a swing district excuse me, swing state and this county has swung back and forth between elections. So when you hear people like Tammy saying that they might vote for the other party, that might raise a little bit of concern for the president Jim and Poppy.
[Harlow:] That's how he won a lot of the rust belt, right, Vanessa? It flipped the other way in favor of the president. So can he maintain that, or does it flip back?
[Sciutto:] Well, a lot of it is showing up in broader national polling as well, some of those questions. Vanessa Yurkevich, thanks very much.
[Harlow:] House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls on President Trump to wait until the government shutdown is over to hold the State of the Union address. We'll hear from her any moment.