Domenico Montanaro

All right.

That's a pretty big drop in a very short period of time.

And if that kind of thing continues and gas prices continue to go up, I think that's the kind of thing that pauses the kind of action that Trump will be doing and something that he'll be looking for an off ramp and to sell a win.

Well, I mean, I think that we've talked about the potential, like you said, for American deaths and where that most increases as a possibility is when you have ground troops.

Right.

When you have people on the ground, I think that there's a lot of scar tissue in this country from the casualties that the United States took on during the Iraq war.

And the Iraq war back in 2006 was spiraling into civil war.

And we saw President George W. Bush's approval rating back then just nosedive.

So I think that's the kind of thing that Americans are very leery of.

Air campaigns, strikes from the sea, without retaliatory measures on the

And that's, you know, a big if.

Right.

If that were to continue to be the case, then we probably see the numbers stay as they are.

But if that were to change and American commitments started to grow, including with Americans on the ground in Iran, death counts rising.

and potential attacks on the homeland.

That's where I think you see some of these numbers really drop.

Mm hmm.

I will say, though, the numbers in our poll are not good for the president.

I mean, just just just just just given the fact that Republicans are backing him doesn't mean that the American public is overall thinking this is a good idea.

And he faces a very skeptical audience on a lot of different fronts.