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74% yes, including 69% of independents.

Is it important to restrain the global influence of China and Russia?

66% yes, including 63% of independents.

Again, these are not numbers that suggest that the American people are desperate, desperate to stop this right now.

Three quarters of all voters, according to this poll, say that winning the war is important.

And also that the United States is, in fact, winning.

Two thirds agree that Iran is the leading source of instability, terrorism, and that the Iranians do not support the Ayatollahs.

67% of people believe, again, that Iran is the big source of instability and terrorism in the region.

So this begs the question, why is President Trump lagging in the polls?

Because his approval ratings are down.

I mean, the answer really is because of the economy, as always.

Right now, a lot of dyspepsia about the economy.

And because of the war, the stock market is down and gas prices are up.

46% of Americans, according to the same poll, think inflation is the most salient issue.

53% say the economy is worse than it was under Joe Biden.

Now, again, we keep hearing that MAGA Republicans are abandoning President Trump.

That's actually not true.

What is happening is that Democrats and independents who jumped on the Trump bandwagon, largely because they didn't like Kamala Harris, some of those people are dropping off.

Kristen Soltis Anderson, who's an excellent pollster, writes in the New York Times,

She says, my polling shows MAGA thinks Trump got it right when it comes to Iran.