From “What Americans Really Think About Trump’s Venezuela Gambit: New polling offers a revealing look into shifting U.S. public opinion” by Christina Lu at Foreign Policy:

Even as U.S. President Donald Trump hails the recent U.S. attack on Venezuela and ousting of the country’s president as “amazing,” new polling suggests that Americans remain deeply divided over the move.

Prior to last weekend’s operation, polling suggested that Americans were largely against any U.S. military action in Venezuela. A Quinnipiac University poll in December, for example, found that about 63 percent of respondents expressed opposition, while a whopping 70 percent said the same in a CBS News/YouGov survey from November.

But Americans are more evenly split in their approval and disapproval of this weekend’s developments, according to new polling published by Reuters/Ipsos on Monday. The poll, which was conducted on Jan. 4 and 5 and surveyed more than 1,200 adults nationwide, offers an illuminating look into how the American public views the controversial military operation that has come to dominate much of the world’s attention.

World leaders, it turns out, aren’t the only ones with mixed reactions to the U.S. attack. The poll’s findings suggest that the American public also harbors a wide range of views, with no one reaction clearly on top. What is clear, however, is a wariness that the White House will become too deeply mired in Venezuela’s domestic affairs.

“They don’t want to get too involved. They don’t want U.S. troops in Venezuela,” said Alec Tyson, a lead pollster and senior vice president at Ipsos Public Affairs, which conducted the polling.

“That presents really a narrow path here for the administration, where Americans are open to—or perhaps hoping for—some positive outcomes, but they’re very cautious about getting too involved,” he added.

That challenge is reflected in the data: 33 percent of the survey’s respondents approved of the U.S. military action, almost evenly matching the 34 percent of respondents who disapproved. There’s also a deep sense of uncertainty; 32 percent of people said they were not sure how to feel.

Public sentiment is even more sharply fractured along partisan lines. Nearly two-thirds of Republicans, for example, backed Trump’s operation. The same amount of Democrats opposed it.

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