Polls Show Trump on Thin Ice With Interventionist Threats |
There’s always a shortage of public polls after the holidays, so it has been difficult to get a quick read on how people are reacting to Donald Trump’s Venezuela gambit and his continuing threats to take military action against Iran, Greenland, and other countries. But there’s just enough data to suggest this suddenly interventionist president will be on thin ice with the public if he goes beyond the kind of hit-and-run tactics he deployed in deposing and capturing Nicolás Maduro. Trump usually enjoys solid support from his Republican base on nearly everything he does. But when more troubling military actions are proposed, that unanimity among the MAGA base sags, he gets little backing from independents, and Democrats are totally opposed.
Polls that narrowly ask if voters approve of the Maduro adventure showed roughly even support and opposition, with a decent number of people unsure about it. A Reuters-Ipsos poll immediately after the strike on Caracas showed a third of Americans supported it, a third opposed it, and a third had no opinion. A