GOP hopefuls blame Biden deal with Iran after Hamas attack

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Although Hamas is a Sunni Muslim group, it has a militant wing that has long nurtured close ties with Iran, a source of funding and a Shiite powerhouse.
43% : The $6 billion figure is not U.S. taxpayer money, senior Biden administration officials stressed at the time of the deal, but rather payments made by South Korea to Iran to buy oil in recent years.
43% : We're going to stand with the State of Israel, they need to root out Hamas and we need to stand up to Iran.
36% : "Brian Nelson, undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence at Treasury, also stressed that "these restricted funds cannot go to Iran" and "any suggestion to the contrary is false and misleading.
32% : Former President Donald Trump and other GOP contenders tried to lay blame on the Biden administration after Hamas militants launched the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, citing a $6 billion transfer to Iran that administration officials insisted Saturday had yet to be spent.Hamas' surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday Saturday marks a new foreign policy front in a presidential election that has been unusually dominated by foreign affairs.
30% : "Pence also blamed Biden, saying the current administration "projects weakness on the world stage" and "kowtows to the mullahs in Iran."
28% : Much of the Republican criticism focused on a complex deal by the Biden administration in September to release five U.S. citizens detained in Iran.
28% : Hamas and Iran are brought together by a shared enmity toward Israel.
19% : DeSantis, in a video statement, accused Biden of "policies that have gone easy on Iran" and "helped to fill their coffers.

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