00:00There was a lot of public concern about this conflict.
00:03There was political opposition, obviously, from the Democratic Party,
00:08warnings that there was a lack of strategy,
00:10warnings that things hadn't been properly thought through.
00:14When it comes to public opinion,
00:16have you noticed as this conflict has gone on that the needle has shifted at all?
00:22There's been a couple of surprising things on public opinion.
00:26First and foremost, the president ran in 2016 and then again in 2024
00:33on not getting the United States bogged down in foreign entanglements.
00:38And I think the main question here is going to be whether or not
00:42the effort by the United States and Israel
00:46is going to get to the point of being an entanglement
00:49rather than just a rather short-lived military strike.
00:54However, Republicans have stuck with the president.
00:57So in the public polling that we've seen in the United States,
00:59he has done, even though they supported a more isolationist campaign,
01:06the president's supporters have been with him at very high numbers.
01:09Where we've seen slippage is obviously amongst Democrats.
01:12But with that group, I'm not sure Trump can, he could solve,
01:17you know, they find the cure for cancer and I'm not sure they would approve.
01:20But more disturbing, I think, for the White House
01:23is the lack of support from independents.
01:25And so this is something that the White House is going to have to watch.
01:29And again, I think it will ebb and flow.
01:31But the longer the conflict goes on,
01:34I doubt that those numbers are going to improve.
01:37And then also we need to watch and make sure
01:39that the president's support amongst his own party stays strong.
01:44We'll see you next time.
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