Fifty-nine percent of registered voters in the latest The Hill-HarrisX poll said they favor keeping some American forces in Syria, a sign of public opposition to President Trump’s plans to withdraw all troops from the country.
The survey also found that 35 percent of voters think that the U.S. military should remain in Syria because they do not think ISIS has been defeated, compared to 10 percent who agree with Trump that it has been defeated and that troops should be withdrawn. Twenty-four percent said that while ISIS has been defeated, the U.S. should keep some troops in the country.
Trump surprised his own military leaders in December by announcing the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria, a decision that led to the resignation of Defense Sec. James Mattis.
The proposal has since run into opposition from Republican lawmakers amid conflicting signals from the administration over how quickly forces will be withdrawn.
On Wednesday, four U.S. service members were killed in a suicide bomb attack that ISIS took credit for carrying out. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) argued that the attack illustrated the danger of withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria.
The poll did reveal some support for Trump’s position. Forty-one percent of voters said that U.S. troops should be pulled out or should never have been in the country to begin with.
The poll showed opposition from both Democrats and Republicans to the withdrawal, an unusual symmetry in today’s hyper-partisan politics.
A majority of Republican voters, 59 percent, said they favored keeping some military presence in Syria. Most Democratic voters agreed, with 60 percent saying the same. Fifty-nine percent of Independent voters want troops to remain in Syria, while 41 percent prefer withdrawal.
“There is a majority of the American public that feels, for whatever reason, that American troops are still needed in Syria,” Mallory Newall, research director at Ipsos Public Affairs, said Thursday on “What America’s Thinking,” Hill.TV’s show about public opinion.
“What’s really interesting about this poll is that there’s bipartisan support for this,” she continued. “Democrats and Republicans are virtually the same on this.”
While members of both parties seem to want Trump to keep U.S. forces in Syria, there was a notable age gap among respondents, with younger Americans being much more in favor of withdrawing.
A small majority of voters (51 percent) between the ages of 18 and 34 said that the U.S. should not have a military presence in the country.
All other age groups strongly opposed withdrawal. Fifty-six percent of voters between the ages of 35 and 49 wanted to keep troops in Syria as did 68 percent of voters between 50 and 64 and 63 percent of voters older than 65.
The Hill-HarrisX poll was conducted Jan. 12-13 among a demographically representative sample of 1,001 registered voters and has a sampling margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
8 thoughts on “How They Do It– New poll says most Americans want US troops in Syria”
Stupid-ass Americans!! Wow. They are SO going to deserve what they get. Suckin’ up the jew media lies like the soda-brains they are. What will they say when our military gets the crap kicked out of them by Russia?? After a couple of aircraft carriers get sunk? After the checks stop coming because of Rothschild jewry sucking the life out of our nation? Americans are the dumbest people on the planet. The jews must have to take medication to keep from laughing at us 24/7.
Will we have the time to execute the traitors responsible? Will we be able to witness the likes of Lindsey Graham & Marco Rubio firing squad or swinging from a rope? That these scumbags get elected over & over just shows the clueless character of Americans.
The Human Mammal will extinct himself, taking most of the wildlife with them. But the earth will heal and species will rebound. Life on Sweet Mother Earth will be happy to resume without the Human Mammal to kill everything…his absence will not be missed!
I’ll be laughing my ass off when the Nukes are streaking over the horizon.
Well why not? After all, the kids play all those video games that their parents bought them for Christmas (Call Of Duty, etc.) that lets you shoot all kinds of Dune-Coons. Mental conditioning.
Like hell they do! the poll I know said 75% of Americans want America out of Syria….
INDEED.. the US needs these slithering zios like we need a new deadly communicable disease..
I do not believe the results of this poll. I think most Americans either don’t care if Troops are left there or not or do not want any more tax dollars spent on it and want our entire involvement over there ended once and for all. Why in the world would “MOST” Americans want our troops kept over there for God knows how long? I can’t imagine that even the stupidest or uncaring American would want that much less the majority of us.
What absolutely amaze’s me is how the propaganda machine (run by the CIA) thinks we take what they put out as news and factual. American’s have known for a long time (well many) that anything put out by MSM is BS – read in reverse anything told you by the main news channels. We have now become on par with the German and Japanese propaganda broadcast’s of WWII.
The majority of people I talk to want US troops in israel…
Do most U.S. people know that IsRaEli Defense Forces snipers were on the ground in Iraq picking off U.S. soldiers while the Iraqi (“insurgents”) were getting played for the killings?
Stupid-ass Americans!! Wow. They are SO going to deserve what they get. Suckin’ up the jew media lies like the soda-brains they are. What will they say when our military gets the crap kicked out of them by Russia?? After a couple of aircraft carriers get sunk? After the checks stop coming because of Rothschild jewry sucking the life out of our nation? Americans are the dumbest people on the planet. The jews must have to take medication to keep from laughing at us 24/7.
Will we have the time to execute the traitors responsible? Will we be able to witness the likes of Lindsey Graham & Marco Rubio firing squad or swinging from a rope? That these scumbags get elected over & over just shows the clueless character of Americans.
The Human Mammal will extinct himself, taking most of the wildlife with them. But the earth will heal and species will rebound. Life on Sweet Mother Earth will be happy to resume without the Human Mammal to kill everything…his absence will not be missed!
I’ll be laughing my ass off when the Nukes are streaking over the horizon.
Well why not? After all, the kids play all those video games that their parents bought them for Christmas (Call Of Duty, etc.) that lets you shoot all kinds of Dune-Coons. Mental conditioning.
Like hell they do! the poll I know said 75% of Americans want America out of Syria….
INDEED.. the US needs these slithering zios like we need a new deadly communicable disease..
I do not believe the results of this poll. I think most Americans either don’t care if Troops are left there or not or do not want any more tax dollars spent on it and want our entire involvement over there ended once and for all. Why in the world would “MOST” Americans want our troops kept over there for God knows how long? I can’t imagine that even the stupidest or uncaring American would want that much less the majority of us.
What absolutely amaze’s me is how the propaganda machine (run by the CIA) thinks we take what they put out as news and factual. American’s have known for a long time (well many) that anything put out by MSM is BS – read in reverse anything told you by the main news channels. We have now become on par with the German and Japanese propaganda broadcast’s of WWII.
The majority of people I talk to want US troops in israel…
Do most U.S. people know that IsRaEli Defense Forces snipers were on the ground in Iraq picking off U.S. soldiers while the Iraqi (“insurgents”) were getting played for the killings?