Polls show 83% of Republicans support Trump on Iran despite the split in the narrative
Take, for example, a Washington Post headline this week that read: “Vance in trouble, backs war that could cost him politically.” Pretty strict stuff, except that on the same day a new L&V poll showed that 83% of Republicans supported the war, while only 9% opposed it.
President Donald Trump prepares to sign papers during the White House signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on March 16, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The same poll asked who GOP voters trust most in the Iranian conflict, Mr. President Donald Trump Or podcasters Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly who have been leading the isolationist charge. This was more decisive, as 83% to 6% voted for the president.
Another poll, from Politico, focused squarely on MAGA Republicans, the ones we understand are starting to rebel. The result was that 81% supported strikes on Iran, while only 2% opposed them, most of whom were likely podcasters.
Mike Pence: Trump and our amazing military are ending 47 years of Iranian terrorism
It’s easy to see why liberals in legacy media and the relatively few conservative anti-war podcasters are licking their tracks here. It is as if Trump has broken his promise and can no longer claim to have started new wars. But Iraq is not like that.
Let’s all take a breath here, three weeks does not mean “eternal war”.
If, six months from now, we’re in an unpopular quagmire on the ground in Iran, like… George W. Bush He found himself 20 years ago, and then things might change. But for now, all indications are that Republicans are lining up behind their president.
This was partly due to the Secretary of War, unlike what happened in Iraq Pete HegsethHe, who has learned the lessons of that chaos personally, has set four clear goals for this operation, all of which can be achieved in a relatively short time.
These are:
– Depriving Iran of nuclear capability
To weaken Iran’s long-range missile capability
To destroy the Iranian navy
To disrupt their ability to finance terrorist groups by proxy.
Although these goals have been repeated over and over by almost every administration official, liberal media outlets and alt-right podcasters simply refuse to listen to them, insisting that this is necessary. A war without a clear goal.
President Donald Trump is shown in a composite image next to a satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz. (Aaron Schwartz/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 2025 via Getty Images)
More gas was poured on the false flames of widespread MAGA discontent last week with the resignation of Joe Kent as director of the National Counterterrorism Center, where he had worked for Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, a known anti-war hawk.
It was clear that as soon as Kent resigned he was making the rounds Right-wing anti-war podcastPerhaps most tellingly, he was immediately included in the lineup of the Steve Bannon-backed anti-Israel Catholic Caucus in Washington, which is mostly made up of new converts.
The Americans know that Iran is our enemy. It’s time to get established, politicians agreed
the The anti-Israel and pro-isolationism wing MAGA is nothing new. I saw all these people from Kent to Bannon to podcasters hanging out at CPAC parties four or five years ago. The important point is that, at least in this case, they have little influence on reality MAGA voters.
But you ask how can this be? All of these podcasts have millions and millions of clicks, but no one actually knows what a click is, or whether it brings hundreds of thousands to foreign information operations bot farms.
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Here’s a question: If there are so many conservatives angry about the Iranian conflict, where are they in real life? Why don’t they walk in the streets? Why don’t they fill the conference rooms? Why don’t I meet them for dinner?
I assume, as polls do, that this is because so few of them actually exist.
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My conversations with voters on the ground don’t always match the polls, but in this case they do. MAGA voters, even those who opposed the attack before Operation Epic RageTrust not only Trump’s motives, but also his ability to contain and end this conflict.
As the great social commentator Chuck D of Public Enemy once said: “Don’t believe the hype.” The MAGA movement is squarely in Trump’s corner on the Iran conflict, and Trump has plenty of runway to achieve his goals in the war, end the conflict and prove his doubters, once again, wrong.
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