{"id":1447611,"date":"2024-01-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1447611"},"modified":"2024-01-04T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T09:00:00","slug":"an-increasing-number-of-americans-see-foreign-policy-as-a-top-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/an-increasing-number-of-americans-see-foreign-policy-as-a-top-issue\/1447611\/","title":{"rendered":"An Increasing Number Of Americans See Foreign Policy As A Top Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">An Increasing Number Of Americans See Foreign Policy As A Top Issue<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/news\/an-increasing-number-of-americans-see-foreign-policy-as-a-top-issue\/\"><em>Via The Libertarian Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new poll, the number of voters who\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2024-top-issues-poll-foreign-policy-israel-d89db59deb07f53382cc9292b49f4d1c\">view<\/a>\u00a0foreign policy as a top issue <strong>has doubled during the past year<\/strong>. Joe Biden has defined his presidency by waging a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, backing the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, and engaging in a military buildup in the Asia-Pacific to fight a future war with China.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Associated Press\u00a0survey found, &#8220;About 4 in 10 US adults named foreign policy topics in an open-ended question that asked people to share up to five issues for the government to work on in the next year.&#8221; Last year, only 18% of Americans said foreign wars were a top issue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/fpfile.jpg?itok=TjTLyLsF\"><em>Getty Images<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 20% of Americans are concerned about overseas wars, up from five percent. Five percent of Americans mentioned the Israel war in Gaza. Four percent named the war in Ukraine, down from six percent in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden is struggling in recent polling. <strong>Two demographics that Biden won in 2020 now prefer Trump<\/strong>. A\u00a0USA Today\u00a0poll\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/01\/trump-biden-latino-voters-poll\">found<\/a>\u00a0Trump at 39% ahead of Biden at 34% <strong>among Latino voters<\/strong>. The trend was repeated among young voters who preferred Trump, 37%, to Biden, 33%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Younger voters are the most likely Americans to object to President Biden\u2019s support for the Israeli war<\/strong> against Hamas and Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>As the Israeli military operations in Gaza indiscriminately kill and starve Palestinian civilians, more Americans are protesting Biden\u2019s support for Tel Aviv. The President has recently been confronted with chants of &#8220;Genocide Joe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/f5Dli\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday that Biden has been more involved regarding Israel than any other issue and the White House has no plans to place conditions on the weapons sent to Tel Aviv for use amidst its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vn\/IbH3q\">brutal war<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>The percentage of Americans naming foreign policy as a priority issue more than doubled from last year. Below it ranks second only to the economy&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/pollfp.jpg?itok=22jw4mbY\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Biden has involved himself more intensely in the conflict than almost any other issue in three years in office,&#8221; the outlet reports. &#8220;But there is no serious discussion inside the administration of a meaningful change in policy, like cutting off the arms supply to Israel. Instead, Biden remains determined to navigate the crisis within the crisis by using the credibility he earned through steadfast support of Israel to shape its next chapter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 01\/03\/2024 &#8211; 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/increasing-number-americans-see-foreign-policy-top-issue\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/increasing-number-americans-see-foreign-policy-top-issue<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Increasing Number Of Americans See Foreign Policy As A Top Issue Via The Libertarian Institute, According to a new poll, the number of voters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-64Az","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}