The reactions to the strike that killed Soleimani among show divides not only between the two parties but within the parties as well—at least at the level of elites, and potentially among Republican voters. Via FiveThirtyEight:
conducted during the 2016 Republican primary found that Trump supporters were more likely than other GOP voters to say that “the U.S. does too much to solve world problems.” On the other hand, a clear majority of Trump supporters were in favor of the U.S. deploying ground troops to fight ISIS, putting them in line with the non-Trump Republicans on that issue and suggesting that Trump’s base isn’t overly opposed to military intervention.
Still, it is likely that there is a bloc of pro-Trump Republican voters who don’t want the U.S. to get into a protracted conflict with Iran. The debate over Iran policy has, unsurprisingly, been connected to the Iraq War ever since the U.S. went into Iraq in 2003, and you can see evidence of GOP attitudes in polling on that issue.
If Trump started aggressively campaigning for an extended conflict with Iran, I suspect that Republican support for it would go up. Voters sometimes
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