More Americans support President Donald Trump‘s decision to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro than don’t, new polling from the Daily Mail has found.
The poll, conducted by J.L. Partners, found that 43 percent of registered voters were supportive of Trump’s military action that took place on January 3, while 36 percent were opposed to it.
Not surprisingly, Republicans were far more supportive of Trump’s gamble than their Democratic counterparts.
Seventy-eight percent of GOP voters supported Trump’s actions, versus 8 percent of Republicans who were opposed.
On the Democratic side, just 17 percent of Democrats supported the military intervention, while 57 percent were opposed.
Independents, a key constituency in this year’s midterm elections, were split evenly between the camps.
Thirty-nine percent of independents supported Trump’s decision to capture Maduro and bring him to the United States to stand trial, while 38 percent of independents opposed the move.
A majority of American voters viewed the operation as a success.
More American voters supported President Donald Trump’s (right) actions in Venezuela than didn’t support it, new Daily Mail polling found. Trump is seen Saturday in a makeshift situation room alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth (left) and CIA Director John Ratcliffe (center)
Fifty-four percent of voters thought it went well, with only 15 percent rating the mission as a failure.
Another 31 percent of voters were unsure.
Republicans were overwhelmingly positive about the mission, with 83 percent rating it as a success.
Only a third of Democrats, 33 percent, felt the same way.
Just 4 percent of GOP voters viewed the operation, which took place overnight Saturday while Trump was still at his Mar-a-Lago resort, as a failure.
Democrats were more willing to say that they were unsure about the outcome of the mission than to say it failed.
On the Democratic side, 43 percent said they were unsure about the success of the military operation, while 25 percent said it was an outright failure.
During his Mar-a-Lago press conference on Saturday, Trump said that no American military members were killed during ‘Operation Absolute Resolve.’
Nicolás Maduro (second from right) and his wife Cilia Flores (second from left) are seen in handcuffs as they arrive in Manhattan after President Donald Trump ordered ‘Operation Absolute Resolve’ to capture the Venezuelan dictator and his spouse
Still, Democrats in Congress want Trump to ask for permission to get the U.S. military more involved – with Virginia Senator Tim Kaine planning to bring a war powers resolution to the Senate floor Thursday, which would bar further intervention without congressional authorization.
Trump said that the U.S. would be ‘running’ Venezuela for the immediate future, signaling that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth would take charge.
That statement received raised eyebrows from Democratic voters, with 85 percent expressing concern and just 7 percent expressing little to no concern.
A majority of Republicans, on the other hand, shrugged off Trump’s statement.
Overall, 52 percent expressed little to no concern.
At the same time, part of MAGA ideology has been to be against ‘forever wars,’ with 40 percent of Republican voters expressing some concern over Trump’s decision to get involved in ‘running’ Venezuela.
The poll was conducted on January 5 and 6 among 999 registered voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent.
