Very few American voters believe GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump will be able to get Mexico to pay for a wall along the U.S. border, an ABC News/SSRS online opinion panel survey released over the weekend shows.
According to the survey, conducted overnight on Sept. 1-2, one day after Trump delivered his immigration policy speech in Phoenix:
- 13 percent say Trump can deliver on his promise for the wall;
- 78 percent said he could not.
Most of those surveyed also had negative reactions after the part of Trump's speech, where he said, "Anyone who has entered the United States illegally is subject to deportation . . . There will be no amnesty . . . I am going to create a new special deportation task force focused on identifying and quickly removing the most dangerous criminal illegal immigrants in America who have evaded justice, just like Hillary Clinton has evaded justice, OK?"
Of those reactions:
- 67 percent reacted with a negative word like "ridiculous" or "disgusting;"
- 27 percent used a positive word, like "great" or "agree."
The poll, using the SSRS Probability Panel, included a nationally representative sample of 228 respondents ages 18 or older, and carried a margin of error of plus or minus 8.5 percent.
The panel is a probability-based, online panel of adults recruited from random digit dialed landline and cell phone numbers.
ABC's poll comes on the heels of a Pew Research Center survey showing 61 percent of Americans oppose the wall, a focal point of Trump's presidential campaign, compared to 36 percent being in favor of it.
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