The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll was conducted in the days following the president’s announcement that he would seek to pressure Tehran through economic sanctions, not further military action.
An overwhelming majority of voters support President Donald Trump’s decision to not pursue military action against Iran last week after Tehran launched a missile strike targeting two air bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll found.
While Trump declined to announce further armed conflict during his televised remarks from the White House last Wednesday, he said his administration would “immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions” on the Iranian regime in response to Tehran’s aggression. The Iranian missile salvo represented an act of retaliation against the U.S. after Trump early this month authorized the killing of Tehran’s top military commander in an overnight American drone strike near Baghdad’s international airport.
Story continuesIranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned in a speech in the holy city of Qom that “such military actions are not enough” of a punishment for the U.S., and a senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has also threatened that his nation would extract “harsher revenge soon.”
“Although concerns about war with Iran are waning, our polling suggests voters are paying more attention to national security issues as the election year heats up,” Sinclair said. “Security issues now track as the number one issue with voters.”
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