During his 2024 campaign, President Donald Trump made it clear he opposed ‘forever wars,’ yet recent findings reveal a contrasting sentiment among his party’s supporters. A survey conducted by J.L. Partners for the Daily Mail indicates that a significant 67 percent of Republican voters are in favor of military interventions in nations beyond just Venezuela.
This perspective starkly contrasts with the views of Democrats, only 25 percent of whom support such interventions, and independents, with 41 percent backing military action. Historically, Democrats have been perceived as the more anti-war party, especially since the Iraq War was launched in 2003 under Republican President George W. Bush, a period marked by the Republican Party’s embrace of a hawkish approach as part of the neoconservative agenda.
In recent years, however, Trump has redefined this narrative by vocally opposing the Iraq War and critiquing the prolonged military involvement in Afghanistan, signaling a shift in the party’s traditional stance on military engagements overseas.
Democrats were seen as the more anti-war party during the advent of the Iraq War, which was started under Republican President George W. Bush in 2003.
During this time, the Republican Party represented the more hawkish stance, which was central to the neoconservative movement.
But in recent years, Trump flipped the script, criticizing going to war with Iraq and the length of the Afghanistan conflict.
Overall, 43 percent of Americans backed more military intervention, while 42 percent said the U.S. should stay out of other countries’ business.
Fifty-eight percent of Democrats said the U.S. should stay out of other countries’ business, followed by 41 percent of independents and 22 percent of Republicans.
President Donald Trump is presiding over a party that supports further military involvement despite the fact that he ran on ending ‘forever wars.’ New Daily Mail polling found that 67 percent of Republican voters support more military strikes post-Venezuela
Among all the registered voters polled, Iran would be the top choice of where the U.S. military should intervene next, with 53 percent of Republicans in agreement.
Overnight on January 2 – ahead of the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro – Trump wrote that the U.S. was ‘locked and loaded’ on Iran, warning the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that his regime would pay a price if he murdered protesters.
In June, the U.S. took brief military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities to aid Israel in its brief war with its longtime nemesis.
Twenty-five percent of those surveyed said Iran, while 18 percent said Russia and 17 percent said Cuba.
Trump has struggled to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war, something he pledged to do on day No. 1 in office.
During Saturday’s press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump discussed Cuba but suggested no U.S. military intervention would be needed because the country’s oil supply from Venezuela would be gone.
Cuba, Trump said, ‘looks like it’s going down.’
Other options all received less than 10 percent, with 8 percent selecting China, 6 percent picking the U.S.’s longtime ally, the United Kingdom, Greenland and Afghanistan both receiving 5 percent, and the neighbor to the north, Canada, garnering 2 percent.
Fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela’s largest military complex, is seen from a distance after a series of explosions in Caracas on January 3 amid the U.S. military strike. Polling shows that there’s an appetite for more military intervention among Republicans
Iranians have taken to the streets of Tehran to protest the regime of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. On December 2, President Donald Trump said the U.S. is ‘locked and loaded’ and would go after the regime if protesters were murdered
Cubans attend the 67th anniversary of the start of the Cuban Revolution in Havana on Thursday. President Donald Trump said Saturday he didn’t believe military involvement would be needed there because it ‘looks like it’s going down’
Thirty-one percent of those polled thought that Trump’s intervention in Venezuela made an Iran strike more likely, a sentiment shared about evenly among the parties.
Breaking it down, 31 percent of Republicans, 33 percent of independents and 30 percent of Democrats thought that the Venezuela strike may have emboldened Trump to go after Iran.
The poll was conducted among 999 registered voters on January 3 and 4.
It has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.
