Trump voters—including those under 45—overwhelmingly support Israel as it faces ‘threats from its hostile neighbors’
President Donald Trump’s voters remain staunchly pro-Israel, with 90 percent of self-described “MAGA conservatives” backing U.S. military support for the Jewish state as it fends off threats from Iran and Hamas, according to a new poll by the Vandenberg Coalition and TargetPoint.
“Trump voters remain united behind Israel,” the Vandenberg Coalition wrote in its summary of the survey, which found that 90 percent of self-described “MAGA conservatives”—and 83 percent of all Trump voters—agree with the statement “Israel has a right to defend itself against threats and threats from its hostile neighbors and the United States should continue its strong military support for Israel.”
The poll looked into the opinions of Trump voters, who could describe themselves as “Traditional Conservatives,” “MAGA Conservatives,” or “Moderates.”
Only 7 percent of MAGA conservatives disagreed with the pro-Israel statement.
While “many pundits, like well-known podcaster Tucker Carlson, have sought to describe their personal worldview as that of Trump’s supporters,” according to the Vandenberg Coalition, the pollsters found no evidence of claims that younger Trump supporters are “deeply skeptical” of Israel, with the summary stating that “85 percent of ‘young MAGA voters’ (under the age of 45) continue to support Israel.”
The Vanderburg Coalition-TargetPoint poll comes as the Trump administration cracks down on anti-Semitic protests across the United States, which surged following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack. The administration has revoked billions of dollars in federal funding from universities that failed to rein in anti-Semitic protests and protect Jewish students.
According to the poll, 78 percent of Trump voters approve of the Trump administration’s policy of revoking visas of foreign students who support Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
Trump voters also view Iran negatively, the poll found, with 82 percent of respondents seeing the Islamic Republic as a national security threat to the United States and 93 percent saying that stopping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is “important” to them.
The United States in June destroyed Iran’s underground nuclear facilities using heavy-duty bunker-buster bombs.
If Iran tries to proceed with uranium enrichment anyway, Trump warned last month, “we’ll wipe it out faster than you can wave your finger at it.”
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