Polls Still Find Strong MAGA Support for Trump’s Israel Strikes

The latest poll finds that there is still strong MAGA support for Donald trump's cooperation with Israel's strikes on Iran.

This would be a blow to Democrats who are hoping that Trump's support of Israel will damage his standing.

Per the Washington Free Beacon:

A GrayHouse poll conducted shortly after Israel began its war effort shows that 67 percent of those who voted for Trump "strongly support" the attack on Tehran’s nuclear facilities, while another 16 percent said they somewhat approve. Trump’s approval among MAGA voters has risen since he lent support to the Israeli operation: Seventy-five percent say they strongly approve of the president’s job performance, while another 20 percent say they somewhat approve.

Those results are slightly better for Trump than his approval ratings just a few days before Israel’s campaign, when a League of American Workers poll conducted from June 9 to 11 put Trump’s approval rating at 88 percent among his own voters.

The results show little daylight between Trump and his supporters across America, even as prominent Republican isolationist voices like Tucker Carlson publicly break with the president. Trump signaled on Tuesday afternoon that the United States is likely to join the fight, saying in a Truth Social post "we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran."

Vice President JD Vance recently posted a serious defense of the president and said that Trump has earned some deference on oreign policy.

Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue:First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that…

— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 17, 2025

Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue:

First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Over the last few months, he encouraged his foreign policy team to reach a deal with the Iranians to accomplish this goal. The president has made clear that Iran cannot have uranium enrichment. And he said repeatedly that this would happen one of two ways--the easy way or the "other" way.

Second, I've seen a lot of confusion over the issue of "civilian nuclear power" and "uranium enrichment." These are distinct issues. Iran could have civilian nuclear power without enrichment, but Iran rejected that. Meanwhile, they've enriched uranium far above the level necessary for any civilian purpose. They've been found in violation of their non-proliferation obligations by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which is hardly a rightwing organization.

It's one thing to want civilian nuclear energy. It's another thing to demand sophisticated enrichment capacity. And it's still another to cling to enrichment while simultaneously violating basic non-proliferation obligations and enriching right to the point of weapons-grade uranium.

I have yet to see a single good argument for why Iran needed to enrich uranium well above the threshold for civilian use. I've yet to see a single good argument for why Iran was justified in violating its non-proliferation obligations. I've yet to see a single good pushback against the IAEA's findings.

Meanwhile, the president has shown remarkable restraint in keeping our military's focus on protecting our troops and protecting our citizens.

He may decide he needs to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That decision ultimately belongs to the president. And of course, people are right to be worried about foreign entanglement after the last 25 years of idiotic foreign policy.

But I believe the president has earned some trust on this issue. And having seen this up close and personal, I can assure you that he is only interested in using the American military to accomplish the American people's goals. Whatever he does, that is his focus.

Anyway, so far Trump's support of Israel as it fights to destroy the dangerous Mullahs -- the latter of whom are a danger to the whole world, not just Israel -- is not hurting him among his base.

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