President Trump\u2019s most fervent supporters prefer overthrowing Iran\u2019s theocratic regime to reaching a negotiated settlement with Tehran by a margin of more than two-to-one, according to a new survey.<\/p>\n
The Reagan Institute Summer Survey found that 51% of self-described \u201cMAGA Republicans\u201d said they wanted the US to install new leadership in Iran, while just 25% preferred a peace deal.<\/p>\n
Among all Republicans, 50% said they were in favor of putting a US-friendly regime in place, with 25% again saying they wanted a negotiated settlement.<\/p>\n
Americans are nearly evenly split between favoring Iranian regime change and a negotiated U.S. settlement with Iran, according to a new survey.\u00a0 Getty Images<\/p>\n
Donald Trump speaks at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains. AP Photo\/Vadim Ghirda<\/p>\n
Democrats gave a mirror-image response, with 52% saying they prefered a diplomatic approach and 25% favoring regime change.<\/p>\n
Another 14% stated they wanted to see the regime left in place but weakened economically and militarily.<\/p>\n
Among all respondents, a narrow plurality (39%) wanted Iran\u2019s current leadership to remain with verifiable limits on its nuclear and missile programs.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump signing the Iran Memorandum of Understanding.<\/p>\n
Another 36% opted for supporting regime change, 16% said they wanted the Tehran regime to stay in place with severely reduced economic and military capabilities, and 8% said they didn\u2019t know what they preferred.<\/p>\n
The annual survey shows the uphill political battle Trump faces to sell his latest deal with the rogue Islamic state after three-and-a-half months of military action.<\/p>\n
Some 39% of respondents favor a negotiated settlement where Iran\u2019s\u00a0current government remains in place, with verifiable limits on its nuclear and missile programs, according to the findings of the Reagan Institute Summer Survey<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, President Trump and his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Pezeshkian, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) opening a 60-day window to negotiate a final peace deal, including a winding down of the Islamic Republica\u2019s nuclear program.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also included are provisions reopening the Strait of Hormuz as well as limited sanctions waivers contingent on Iran staying at the negotiating table.<\/p>\n
Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The findings were nearly identical among self-identified MAGA Republicans, 51% of whom favored regime change while 25% backed a negotiated settlement. Fox News<\/p>\n
President Trump told reporters at the G7 Summit in France the MOU was signed to avoid an \u201ceconomic catastrophe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Reagan Institute survey polled 1,555 respondents nationwide May 26-June 3 via a combination of live phone interviews, an online panel and text-to-web responses. It has a margin of error of plus-or-minus 2.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump\u2019s most fervent supporters prefer overthrowing Iran\u2019s theocratic regime to reaching a negotiated settlement with Tehran by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,2973,42,87,142930,47,43,157282,238,3168,40,38,41,39,226,126],"class_list":["post-501717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-foreign-policy","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-politics","tag-polls","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}