Overall, 33% of adults think the withdrawal was a mistake, compared with 36% who do not
. Polling from the fall of Saigon also gives a clue to how Mr Biden’s reputation at home will fare. After the North Vietnamese overran the American-backed South Vietnamese in 1975, amagazine poll found that 38% of people blamed the incumbent president, Gerald Ford, for the fiasco.
Opinions on whether involvement in Afghanistan was a mistake in the first place also divide along party lines. Between July and August, the proportion of Republicans who viewed the war as a mistake dropped from 37% to 30%. But over the same period, opinion among Democrats did not change at all, with 48% viewing the war as a mistake.
Still, a significant number of Americans think the army botched its drawdown in Afghanistan. . Again, Americans seem to be viewing events through the usual partisan lenses, with 50% of Democrats in favour of the withdrawal and 54% of Republicans taking the opposite view. That could bode well for Mr Biden’s ability to avoid paying a heavy political price for the debacle. But his approval rating is already trending downwards.
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