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Poll: Americans reveal verdict on Trump's Iran bombing

Poll: Americans reveal verdict on Trump's Iran bombing

Daily Mail​25-06-2025
Donald Trump earns a plurality of support from voters for his decision to launch bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities over the weekend according to an exclusive Daily Mail/J.L. Partners poll. Forty-nine percent of voters say the president's approach to Iran worked very or somewhat well while just 24 percent believe it worked very or somewhat badly. Eighteen percent of voters are neutral and 10 percent unsure.
Republicans overwhelmingly backed Trump's decision to strike Iran as 75 percent said they supported his decision and only 12 percent opposed it. Trump's approval rating remains steady at 47 percent, as the president engaged in what the described as a 12 day war to eliminate Iran's nuclear facilities.
Forty-five percent of voters said that Trump did the right thing by bombing Iran's three major nuclear sites and 31 percent said it was the wrong thing. Twenty-four percent said they don't know.
But voters appear ready for the United States to be done with the conflict. Forty-nine percent say the United States should take no further action in the conflict and 59 percent support negotiations with Iran. And 46 percent of voters support the United States offering backup support for Israel's military.
There is less support for more drastic action in Iran. Just 38 percent of voters support an additional air campaign, 27 percent support assassinating the Supreme Leader of Iran, and only 21 percent support invading Iran with ground troops. A majority of voters believe that the president should allow both Iran and Israel to handle the conflict on their own after the ceasefire was disrupted.
Fifty-one percent of voters said leave both countries to it while 18 percent of voters supported additional strikes against Iran. Thirty-one percent were unsure. A majority of voters also shared the president's frustration with both countries after he described Israel and Iran as 'two countries that have been fighting so hard and so long that they don't know what the [expletive] they're doing.'
Fifty-three percent of voters agreed with the president's statement and only 15 percent disagreed. A significant number of Americans support regime change in Iran, but only if the Iranian people do it themselves.
Forty-seven percent support the Iranian people overthrowing the Iranian government with just 10% opposed But they are less supportive of American working to make it happen. Just 29 percent support the United States getting involved in a regime change operation and 34 percent oppose.
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