The public overwhelmingly believe that the wealthiest Americans and large corporations will benefit the most as Donald Trump seeks to re-orient the American economy through a dizzying, rapidly shifting trade strategy.
In a CBS News poll released Sunday, three in four U.S. adults said they believed America’s richest people will be the biggest winners of the realignment of the U.S.’s trade policy, while 71 percent said “large corporations” would also benefit. A crucial gap exists between the share of Americans who believe “corporations” will see economic boons and the share who believe that U.S. manufacturing will return, as just half of Americans believe the auto industry will benefit and an even lower share, 42 percent, said that working class families will benefit long-term.
