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Republicans, Democrats say no to US military strike against Iran as Trump mulls action: poll
Fox News ^ | January 14, 2026 | By Paul Steinhauser

Posted on 01/14/2026 11:26:03 PM PST by Kazan

Democrats and Republicans are united in opposing U.S. military strikes against Iran to retaliate for the killing of protesters amid a wave of massive demonstrations against the Iranian government in recent weeks, according to a new national poll.

Seventy percent of voters questioned in a new Quinnipiac University survey said they think the U.S. should not get involved militarily in Iran, with 18% saying the U.S. should take military action.

The vast majority of Independents (80%-11%) and Democrats (79%-7%), as well as a majority of Republicans (53%-35%) said the U.S. should not get involved if protesters in Iran are killed while demonstrating against the regime.

The poll, conducted Jan. 9–12, comes as President Donald Trump has turned up the heat on the regime in Tehran, threatening strikes on Iran if its forces continue to kill demonstrators.

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1 posted on 01/14/2026 11:26:03 PM PST by Kazan
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To: Kazan

I do not have the privilege to Intel reports.

Pure guess follows.

I doubt the protests and riots are as effective as we claim.

Iran has a robust Intel network, military special forces (Quads), and the Chinese have helped them a lot over the years regards the cyber threat and controlling information and communication via the Internet.

I suspect the uprising will be squashed.

Trying to cripple the regimes command and control, paralyze their military and other security forces as we did in Libya so that the opposition forces can get a foot hold is IMHO unlikely to be achieved in Iran.

If we helped fuel these protests (which we surely did), we more or less threw these people to the wolves.


2 posted on 01/14/2026 11:42:23 PM PST by Red6
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To: Kazan
If these polls are right, those polled are wrong.

America should bomb the political leaders of Iran much the same as the Israelis eliminated so deftly the military leaders of Iran.

Regime change in Iran is a legitimate action against the nation that has committed countless acts of war against the United States.


3 posted on 01/14/2026 11:57:31 PM PST by nathanbedford (Attack, repeat, attack! - Bull Halsey)
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To: Red6

With certainty the pawns are the most, in number, on a Chessboard.


4 posted on 01/14/2026 11:58:49 PM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: Kazan

most people are idiots.

begin bombing in 5 minutes.


5 posted on 01/15/2026 12:21:15 AM PST by griffin (When you have to shoot, SHOOT; don't talk. -Tuco)
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To: Kazan

I want the Dems to be polled on when they would actually support military action and a declaration of war. I’m confident that they would only ever support a full declaration of war against the American people... and that they’d resist voting for one even if we were nuked.


6 posted on 01/15/2026 12:30:17 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Red6
If we helped fuel these protests (which we surely did), we more or less threw these people to the wolves.

Sadly, that seems to be an American tradition, as well as a tradition for governments of almost every stripe.

7 posted on 01/15/2026 12:35:38 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Red6
I suspect the uprising will be squashed.

And then what happens to the people who stood up to express their dissident views? RIP.

What is the CIA paid to do, are they doing it poorly and should the CIA be defunded?

Israel produced those unfortunate coincidental accidents in which to nuclear bomb researchers in Iran were killed. What is the CIA doing since their inhuman MK Ultra era?

8 posted on 01/15/2026 12:45:08 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: nathanbedford

Works for me.


9 posted on 01/15/2026 1:39:06 AM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: nathanbedford

Repeat the success of Libya and Syria? Both flooded Europe with refugees and installed terrorists into power. Can’t wait to see what we install in Iran.


10 posted on 01/15/2026 2:20:43 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: Kazan

We have no business attacking Iran. They present no threat to the US. Netanyahu is the one trying to push the US into it and everybody knows it.


11 posted on 01/15/2026 2:32:47 AM PST by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

BS.

Iran’s leaders habe been calling for Death to America for years and specifically targeting President Trump.
Weak willed Democrats and freedom-hating leftists have restricted the military from doing a proper job of killing the scumbags .


12 posted on 01/15/2026 2:47:43 AM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isnt free)
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To: Kazan

The solution to Iran is: Ask Rand Paul what to do and then do the opposite.


13 posted on 01/15/2026 3:02:48 AM PST by RoosterRedux (“Critical thinking is hard; that’s why most people just jump to conclusions.”—Jung (paraphrased))
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To: Kazan

Libtard polls.


14 posted on 01/15/2026 3:19:46 AM PST by cp124 (Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: Kazan

Will the pollster is lib and Fox reported polls tend to be lib this does not sound far off the mark. Few have the capacity for violence even when it is justified.

Even people with the desire to do good often will wait just a little to long before using physical action to prevent a wrong when it is justified.


15 posted on 01/15/2026 3:24:52 AM PST by Skwor
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To: Teacher317

I don’t think it was America that fueled these protests.


16 posted on 01/15/2026 3:34:28 AM PST by dforest
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To: Kazan

I was around in 1979. I watched the Towers fall in 2001(in person). Like many other Americans, I want to see the Islamic Regime burned to a crisp, never to be seen again. I want heads on pikes and scalps in a basket.


17 posted on 01/15/2026 4:21:54 AM PST by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: Red6

If we don’t help them now ,we never will. I wish we had a congress with balls as big as Trump.


18 posted on 01/15/2026 4:31:38 AM PST by spincaster (en's of thousands )
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To: Kazan

Answers to polling questions totally depend upon the phrasing of the question and on the subsequent questions asked.
That being said, most people ( and I include politicians in Washington) have No idea what happens in Iran


19 posted on 01/15/2026 4:52:21 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Kazan

>> Democrats and Republicans are united in opposing U.S. military strikes against Iran

No they aren’t. Yet another BS push poll.


20 posted on 01/15/2026 4:54:11 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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