{"id":40180,"date":"2025-03-25T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T01:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40180"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:32:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T02:32:29","slug":"less-than-1-in-5-favor-us-annexing-canada-greenland-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=40180","title":{"rendered":"Less than 1 in 5 favor US annexing Canada, Greenland: Survey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Less than one in five Americans favor the U.S. annexing Canada and semiautonomous island Greenland, according to a new survey<\/u><\/a> released Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Yahoo News\/YouGov poll found that 17 percent of U.S. adults favor Canada becoming the U.S.\u2019s 51st state, an idea that President Trump\u2002<\/u><\/a>has brought up<\/u><\/a> several times since winning the 2024 presidential election. Over half of the respondents, 57 percent, are opposed to the potential expansion of the U.S.\u2019s territory, while 26 percent said they were unsure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar figures were discovered when respondents were asked about the possibility of Washington annexing Greenland, a foreign policy goal Trump has talked about in his first term and reiterated in the last few months<\/u><\/a>. Around 19 percent of Americans are in favor of the U.S. annexing Greenland, a mineral-rich island whose foreign policy and defense are overseen by Denmark. Nearly half of Americans, 49 percent, are opposed to the idea while another third, 32 percent, were unsure, according to the survey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vice President Vance\u2002<\/u><\/a>said he will travel<\/u><\/a> to Greenland on Friday, a decision that came after officials in both Denmark and Greenland saw his wife\u2019s, Second Lady Usha Vance, visit as a provocation and part of Trump\u2019s push to overtake the Arctic island. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was so much excitement around Usha\u2019s visit to Greenland this Friday, that I decided that I didn\u2019t want her to have all that fun by herself, and so I\u2019m going to join her,\u201d Vance said Tuesday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usha Vance was set to travel with other U.S. officials as part of Washington\u2019s delegation, with Greenland Prime Minister M\u00fate Bourup Egede saying<\/u><\/a> it is a part of a \u201cvery aggressive\u201d pressure campaign \u201cagainst Greenlandic society.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voters were split when asked if Trump has prioritized the most important issues in the first two months of his second term in the Oval Office. Around 43 percent said the president has focused on the country\u2019s \u201cmost important problems,\u201d while 45 percent of Americans said the commander-in-chief has focused on issues \u201cthat aren\u2019t very important.\u201d Some 12 percent were not sure, according to the survey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The poll was conducted from March 20-24 among 1,677 U.S. adults. The margin of error was 2.7 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Less than one in five Americans favor the U.S. annexing Canada and semiautonomous island Greenland, according to a new survey released Tuesday.  The Yahoo News\/YouGov poll found that 17 percent of U.S. adults favor Canada becoming the U.S.\u2019s 51st state, an idea that President Trump\u2002has brought up several times since winning the 2024 presidential election. Over half of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[32799,3401,31910,1807,10442],"class_list":["post-40180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-annexation","tag-canada","tag-greenland","tag-survey","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40183,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40180\/revisions\/40183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}