Eight in 10 Americans Think U.S. Will Pay for the Wall on Mexico's Border Sarah Dutton - CBS News
go to original January 19, 2017

US President-elect Donald Trump has denied a report that American taxpayers would pay for his planned border wall with Mexico. (PressTV)

Donald Trump campaigned on keeping jobs in the U.S. and six in ten Americans expect he will keep a significant number of U.S. jobs from moving overseas. Just under half think he will be able to get big money out of politics. About a third think he will build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border (something six in ten Americans oppose), or defeat ISIS.

Overall, just 39 percent expect Mr. Trump will keep most of the promises he made during the presidential campaign, while over half the public thinks he will not keep those promises.

Expectations are that Mr. Trump’s policies will be most advantageous for large corporations, the rich and white Americans, and will be more detrimental to racial minorities and women.

Fifty-nine percent of Americans oppose building a wall along the Mexico border; 37 percent favor that. Views divide along party lines: 65 percent of Republicans favor building a wall, while 79 percent of Democrats oppose it.

Seventy-nine percent of Americans expect that if a wall is built along the border, the U.S. will ultimately pay for it. Just 14 percent expect Mexico will pay, as Mr. Trump has claimed. Sixty percent of Republicans, and 91 percent of Democrats, think the U.S. will pay for the wall if it is built.

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