Supporters of Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again base overwhelmingly support the war in Iran, with nearly 90 percent backing the president’s military attacks, according to the polls.
CNN’s Chief Data Analyst Harry Enten shared recent polling on MAGA’s approval of military action in Iran on Tuesday. An average of 89 percent approve of the war, while just 9 percent disapprove.
“This is tremendously popular among the Republican base,” Enten said of the U.S.-Israeli strikes that began more than two weeks ago.
Enten’s data was based on a post from Gabe Fleisher’s Wake Up To Politics Substack published last week. Referenced in Felisher’s post was an NBC News poll that found 90 percent of MAGA supporters backed the military strikes.
A CNN poll mentioned by Fleisher found that 77 percent of Republicans approved of the strikes. MAGA Republicans are 30 points more likely than non-MAGA Republicans to strongly approve of Trump’s decision to attack Iran.
While MAGA supporters in these polls may be on board with the strikes, some prominent pro-Trump media figures have voiced opposition to the war, which has no end date.
Tucker Carlson called the military action “absolutely disgusting and evil,” in a statement to ABC News’ Jonathan Karl on February 28. Trump later told Karl, “Tucker has lost his way.”
“I knew that a long time ago, and he’s not MAGA. MAGA is saving our country. MAGA is making our country great again. MAGA is America First, and Tucker is none of those things,” Trump said of the former Fox News host.
Talk radio host Megyn Kelly said on her SiriusXM show shortly after it began that she had “serious doubts” about the war.
“I support the president. I voted for the president. I campaigned the president. But that doesn’t mean…you have to accept another Middle East war without questions,” she said.
Another conservative commentator, Mark Levin, slammed Kelly on X over the weekend as an “emotionally unhinged, lewd, and petulant wreck” over his criticism of the Iran war.
“Micropenis Mark Levin thinks he has the monopoly on lewd. He tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible,” Kelly responded on X.
Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who had a falling out with Trump before resigning, backed up Kelly, writing on X, “I wholeheartedly support Megyn Kelly telling the world that Mark Levin has a micropenis…And Trump’s gigantic defense of Levin only enraged the base more. People are DONE. MAGA destroyed by micropenis Mark Levin.”
Trump took to Truth Social to defend Levin amid his social media spat with Kelly, writing, “Mark Levin, a truly Great American Patriot, is somewhat under siege by other people with far less Intellect, Capability, and Love for our Country. “
While Trump may have the support of his base, or at least those answering the polls, most Americans disapprove of his handling of the Iran war.
A new The Economist/YouGov poll found 56 percent of U.S. adults disapprove of the way Trump is handling the situation in Iran, while 36 percent approve.
