New Jersey residents believe the United States should play a role in the situation between Russia and Ukraine, but shared whether they should send more troops to Eastern Europe to recapture Russia even more, according to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll released Monday.
“New Jerseyists largely reiterate national views on the role of the United States when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,” said Ashley Koning, an associate professor and director. Eagleton Public Interest Survey Center at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. “But with New Jersey having one of the largest Ukrainian populations in the country, residents here are a little more likely than Americans across the country to want to see the U.S. play an important role in the conflict and send more troops.”
36 percent of respondents said the U.S. should play a major role in the crisis, the prevalence of which increased with the age of respondents. Another 37% of respondents said the U.S. should play a secondary role, while 21% said the U.S. should have no role at all, and 6% were unsure. 46 percent support sending additional U.S. troops to Eastern Europe; 43% oppose such a step, and 11% either have no opinion or are unsure.
Support for increasing the US military presence in Europe was almost the same among Democrats (52%) and Republicans (51%), well above the level of support among independent voters (41%).
The in-state survey was conducted among 1,044 adults interviewed live by landlines and mobiles from February 25 to March 4. The full sample has an error of +/- 3.5 percentage points. The subsample in the first question has an error of +/- 4.8 percentage points, while the subsample in the second question has an error of +/- 5.1 percentage points.
