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Breaking News: A majority of Americans oppose U.S. military actions in Iran and disapprove of Trump’s handling of the conflict, a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll shows. See link below…see more
As Operation Epic Fury nears the end of its first week, the new survey found 56% of Americans oppose U.S.
military action in Iran, while 44% support it. Support for U.S. action has remained relatively steady since January, before the attacks began.
The poll was conducted in the days after an Iranian drone strike on a command center in Kuwait killed six U.S. soldiers. Trump’s approval for his handling of Iran stands at 36%, down 6 percentage points from January 2020, when tensions with Tehran spiked following a targeted U.S. drone strike that killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, a division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Opinion of the current action is sharply divided along partisan lines. Strong majorities of Republicans back both the president’s approach and the strikes themselves – 79% and 84%, respectively – while 86% of Democrats are opposed to both.
Among independents, roughly 6 in 10 disapprove of Trump’s handling of the situation and oppose military action.
