Philip M. Bailey

That's been what's unfolded thus far.

There are going to be some other primaries that are going to test this, too.

I look, for example, at the Senate primary in Michigan.

That could be an example of that, where I think it's more of an ideological tit to it.

But for now, Democrats, I think, are trying to focus on affordability, focus on bread and butter, focus on Donald Trump and the chaos of his administration and his faltering poll numbers.

That's where Democratic energy seems to be thus far.

Well, the cracks are there.

I mean, right now, the vast majority of Americans oppose this war, which has multiple explanations.

The administration really doesn't have a singular argument for why we're engaged in this conflict with Iran, other than the sort of larger point of view, which is that Iran is a theocratic regime that has sponsored terrorism, that has been an adversary of the United States since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

I think that's where most people, when you look at the polling, independents, Democrats, Republicans agree on.

The screaming over the war, though, comes down to what type of war are we fighting here?

Republicans overwhelmingly still think that 85% support President Trump in this war.

A poll just done by Quinnipiac University this week found that 52% of Republicans, again, more than half of Republicans, oppose ground troops going into Iran.

So that's where the president begins to see his coalition lose grip here with his coalition on the war is how do we fight this war, right?

Bombs and airstrikes are one thing, and that's already has most independents and Democrats uneasy in opposition to this war.

But when it comes to ground troops, there is no support.

There's not a group of Americans who support sending U.S.

military on the ground into Iran at this point.

I don't think that necessarily we'll see that change because the president, unlike presidents in the past, hasn't really given a coherent message, a singular message about why we're involved

Remember, there still is a lot of anti-Israeli sentiments on both the Democratic side and the Republican side.