Polls and interviews show Americans broadly supportive of withdrawing from Afghanistan but divided over how much to hold President Biden responsible for the messy exit
Daniella Garcia and Robert Montani both think it is past time for U.S. troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. But the two Pennsylvanians diverge on how much blame to put on President Biden forMs. Garcia, a 49-year-old customer-service manager from South Philadelphia who voted for Mr. Biden, said the president “got stuck with a lot of it” and “did the best with the information he had.” Mr.
Their comments reflect the mixed feelings of many Americans as they follow what has quickly become the greatest foreign-policy challenge of Mr. Biden’s presidency. Interviews conducted both before and afterwith more than two dozen Americans in Georgia and Pennsylvania, two states pivotal to Mr. Biden’s election victory, captured broad support for leaving Afghanistan, but more mixed views on the exit itself. Many of the responses fell along party lines.taken Aug.
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