A week and a half after the US-Israeli strikes against , the latest shows that more than half of American voters oppose US military action.
The research by Quinnipiac University in Connecticut is the latest to highlight a wide partisan divide in support for the US military operation known as Epic Fury, which has led to the death of Khamenei and the destruction of the country’s military.
In the survey, conducted Friday through Sunday, 53 percent of respondents said they opposed military action against Iran ordered by President Donald Trump, while 40 percent said they supported it.
The Quinnipiac poll joins other recent polls by NPR/PBS/Marist (44%–55%), CBS News (44%–56%), NBC News (41%–54%), Washington Post (39%–52%), CNN (41%–59%) and Reuters/Ipsos (27%–43%) that show little support for US military action.
The most recent Fox News poll, however, from February 28 to March 2, showed that Americans are 50-50 for or against business. The surveys highlight the divergence between Democrats and Republicans on the battles.
The numbers
More than 8 in 10 Republicans polled by Fox News said they support using military force against Iran, with 6 in 10 saying the president’s actions make the US safer.
By contrast, nearly 8 in 10 Democrats and 6 in 10 independents disapprove of the raids and say security has decreased because of Trump’s action. A majority of Democrats polled by Quinnipiac, as well as 6 in 10 independents, said they oppose the raids, while 85 percent of Republicans support them.
A majority (55%) said they did not see Iran as an immediate military threat to the US before the attacks, with nearly 4 in 10 disagreeing. Here, too, there was a partisan divide: 83% of Democrats and 63% of independents said Iran did not pose an immediate threat, while nearly three-quarters of Republicans said Tehran did.
However, there was no partisan divide on the possibility of sending US ground forces to Iran. Nearly three-quarters of respondents opposed sending ground forces, including 95% of Democrats, 75% of independents and 52% of Republicans. Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have not ruled out the use of ground forces.
When asked how long the US-Iran fighting, which includes counterattacks by Iran against Israel and other countries in the Middle East, would last, only 3% estimated days, 18% weeks, 32% months, 13% a year, and just over a quarter more than a year.
Yesterday, Monday 9/3, Trump said at a press conference: “. Look, everything they had is gone, including their leadership.” The president described the operation as an “excursion.”
Trump recently ignored polls on Iran, telling the New York Post on March 2 that “I don’t care about polls. I have to do the right thing. This should have been done much earlier.”
Trump’s overall approval rating in the Quinnipiac survey was 37%, with 57% rating his performance negatively. In the Fox News poll his approval rating was 43% and in the NBC News survey 44%. The average of the latest national polls shows 43% approval and 54% negative approval.
