Poll: Most Americans oppose war in Iran, but most Republicans support it

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Miles Parks.

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  I cover voting.

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  I'm Tamara Keith.

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  I cover the White House.

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  And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

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  And today on the show,

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  a new NPR PBS News Marist poll shows that most Americans do not approve of the war with Iran.

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  Domenico, let's start there.

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  Tell us more about what this poll found.

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  Well, you know, 56% of people said that they oppose the military action in Iran.

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  36%, only 36%, approve of Donald Trump's handling of it.

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  And 55%, a majority, said that Iran represents only a minor threat or no threat at all.

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  And we should say that this poll was conducted during the first week of the bombing.

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  It's kind of impossible not to hear those numbers and think.

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  That sounds very similar to Trump's overall approval rating, right?

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  It sure does.

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  And I think that we've seen a lot of things this way where the numbers are pretty baked in when it comes to Trump and the kinds of actions that he's taking,

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  especially highly controversial actions where you have a pretty sizable percentage of people who are strongly disapproving of things that he's doing and then a very locked in portion of his base.

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  More than 80% of Republicans in this survey approve of military action in Iran and 79% of Republicans approve of the job that he's doing in handling Iran.

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