Most Americans believe the president should only deploy service members to face external threats and that troops and their leaders should steer clear of politics, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.

The poll, which surveyed both Republicans and Democrats and ran over a five-day period starting last week, is the latest sign of public discomfort over President Donald Trump’s deployments of National Guard — and some active-duty troops earlier this summer — to police American cities whose elected leaders are Democrats.

Seventy-two percent of Democrats believed the military should only be used to combat threats outside of the U.S., according to the poll. They were joined in that view by a slim majority of Republicans at 51% who shared the same belief. Among all adults in

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