President Trump bears the majority of the blame for the partial government shutdown over his demand for $5.7 billion for a wall on the southern border, a poll released Thursday shows.
Sixty percent of Americans say Trump bears responsibility, 31 percent believe Democrats do and 36 percent blame the 34-day shutdown on Republicans, an Associated Press, NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll found.
Broken down by political party, a whopping 87 percent of Democrats blame Trump, while 28 percent of Republicans and 54 percent of independents put the onus on the president.
The poll shows that 58 percent of Republicans say Democrats in Congress are the main cause of the shutdown.
More Americans (49 percent) oppose Trump’s plan to build the barrier than those in favor (36 percent).
And those responding to the survey rejected many of the reasons Trump outlined in a nationally televised Oval Office speech earlier this month on why the wall needs to be built.
About six in 10 think the wall would slightly reduce the number of people crossing the border illegally, while only three in 10 say that number would significantly decrease.
But 57 percent believe it won’t make the country any safer, while 35 percent said it would.
The survey showed that 49 percent believe it would have no effect on keeping drugs out of the United States, while 28 percent said the wall would slightly reduce the amount of drugs and 21 percent said it would significantly reduce illegal drugs.
The poll surveyed 1,062 adults between Jan. 16 and Jan. 20. It has a plus-or-minus 4.1 percentage-point margin of error.