A majority of U.S. registered voters disapproved of the country joining Israel in attacking Iran, as support for the Jewish state reached a new low, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
In the survey, 51% opposed the attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, while 42% supported them. Republicans supported the bombing, 81% to 15%, while Democrats disapproved by 75% to 15%, as did independents, 60% to 35%.
“No ambivalence from Republicans on the U.S. bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites,” Quinnipiac polling analyst Tim Malloy said. “By a large margin, GOP voters give full-throated support to the mission.”
Republicans also overwhelmingly supported Israel’s attacks against Iran’s nuclear and military sites 80% to 15%. Democrats opposed them, 60% to 25%, while independents were split, with 46% saying yes and 45% saying no.
Overall, voters backed the Israeli strikes against Iran, 50% to 40%.
But the poll showed a continued drop in U.S. support for the Jewish state at a time of rising antisemitism since the Hamas-led terrorist attacks in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
In the survey, 42% said the United States is too supportive of Israel—an all-time high in Quinnipiac polling going back to 2017—while 5% said the United States wasn’t supportive enough, a record low for the poll, and 45% said the amount of support was right.
At the same time, half of U.S. voters said the military strikes would make the country less safe, while 42% said they would make America safer.
And by a 78% to 22% margin, they said they were concerned that the country could get drawn into a war with Iran.
“American voters, most of whom are not supportive of the country joining in the Israel-Iran conflict, are extremely troubled by the possibility that involvement could metastasize and draw the United States into a direct war with Iran,” Malloy stated.
The poll of 979 self-identified, registered voters was conducted June 22 to 24, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
