A new nationwide poll finds that 71 percent of Americans, including 51 percent of Republicans, want the incoming Democratic-majority Congress to pass legislation ending the war with Iran.
The four-day Reuters/Ipsos survey, completed Monday, also showed 93 percent of Democrats backing that legislation. President Donald Trump launched the conflict alongside Israel in February and has defended it as necessary to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Democrats won their largest congressional majorities since at least 2008 in last weeks midterms and will take power when the new Congress is sworn in on January 3.
The same poll found 62 percent would support an effort to repeal tariffs imposed by the Trump administration, and nine in 10 respondents said cost-of-living issues should be a focus in the first 100 days. The war has pushed fuel prices sharply higher, adding to inflation already stoked by those import taxes, according to the survey.
Conducted online among 1,705 U.S. adults, the poll has a margin of error of about 2 percentage points. It put Trumps approval rating at 32 percent, near the lowest level of his political career, while 45 percent of Americans viewed Democrats favorably and 35 percent viewed Republicans favorably.
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