House Speaker Mike Johnson was confronted with an inconvenient truth from an unlikely source: Fox News.

Johnson was being interviewed on The Will Cain Show on Monday when the host brought up the reaction of voters to the government shutdown that started on Oct. 1.

The Fox News host cited an NBC poll of 1,000 registered voters showing 52 percent blamed Donald Trump and the Republican Party for the shutdown, as opposed to 42 percent who agreed with the Trump administration that the Democrats were to blame.

A confused Cain asked Johnson, “Why would the polls look like that when you are clearly voting to continue to fund the government and Democrats are not voting to continue to fund the government?”

Johnson started by disputing the figures: “For one thing the polls are all over the place.

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