Most Americans don’t want troops deployed without an external threat, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

WASHINGTON: (Web News)Some 58% of Americans – including seven in 10 Democrats and half of Republicans – think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
The poll, which ran Friday through Tuesday, also showed the Republican president’s approval rating ticking down to 40% – 1 percentage point lower than in a late September poll, with his rating slipping on his handling of crime and the cost of living for U.S. households.The poll was conducted in the days after Trump told an unusual meeting of hundreds of generals and admirals summoned from around the world to Virginia that the U.S. faces an “enemy within” and as he deploys armed troops to patrol a growing number of Democratic-led cities, including Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles.