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Eventually, but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico
will be paying, in some form, for the badly needed border wall.
11:44 AM - 23 Apr 2017
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In some form Mexico will pay eventually. But in a concrete
form, Americans will pay now: with revenue collected from your
income taxes.
The strongest support was offered by those who said theyd voted
for Trump. Three-quarters of Republicans agreed that the funding
should be a priority. However, only a third of independents and
about 1-in-10 Democrats agreed that the spending should
happen.
In late March, Quinnipiac found that only 35 percent of Americans
felt that wall spending should move forward. Again, most
Republicans agreed, but only 31 percent of independents and 6
percent of Democrats agreed.
In other words, polling in March showed that 49 percent of
Americans supported Obamacare to 39 percent who wanted to
spend on the wall, according to the higher numbers in that CNN-
ORC poll. About 45 percent of independents viewed Obamacare
positively, but only 34 percent of that group wanted to spend on
the wall. Given that soft support from independents is one of the
main reasons Trumps approval rating is historically low, that
seems significant.
An interesting Fox News poll from last month asked people to rank
what they hoped Trump would accomplish. Even among
Republicans and Trump voters, building the wall was a lower
priority.
Were comparing a few kinds of apple here, of course. But
generally, polling suggests that Obamacare is more popular than
the wall, with every group except Trumps core base of support.
Thats probably part of whats happening here: Because Trumps
focus from the outset of his campaign has been to appeal to the
same central core of the American electorate, that hes
threatening something moderately popular on behalf of
something fairly unpopular makes sense, given that opinions are
flipped among the voters who pushed him over the finish line.
Over the short term, thats a low-risk strategy for Trump. Over the
longer term? We will see.