Eighty-one percent of respondents also say the US should maintain strong support for Israel, a new poll found
President Donald Trump’s voters overwhelmingly agree that Israel does not bear responsibility for any suffering in Gaza, according to a new poll from the Vandenberg Coalition and TargetPoint.
Fifty-six percent of those voters said that Hamas, after “launching a brutal attack on Israel, stealing international aid from the Palestinian people, and shielding itself behind civilians in Gaza,” is to blame, while only 10 percent named Israel as the cause.
Thirteen percent of respondents blamed the United Nations for not allowing enough aid into Gaza and letting Hamas steal aid from the Palestinian people, while another 13 percent said the United States bears responsibility over its support for Israel. Eight percent of those surveyed blamed Arab nations like Egypt and Jordan.
Eighty-one percent of respondents said they believe Israel has a right to defend itself and that the United States should maintain its strong support for the Jewish state. While support for Israel among Trump’s voters has remained consistently high since the poll’s first edition in June 2025 and has never fallen below 80 percent, this most recent poll indicates that Trump’s voters are skeptical of the mainstream narrative surrounding aid in Gaza.
The poll results also fly in the face of recent statements from self-described “MAGA” voices like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) and Tucker Carlson.
Greene, who has accused Israel of committing a “genocide” in Gaza, recently stated that she believes the United States should no longer offer military aid to the Jewish state.
“That means every U.S. tax payer is contributing to Israel’s military actions,” she wrote on X. “I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to pay for genocide in a foreign country against a foreign people for a foreign war that I had nothing to do with.”
Carlson has consistently called for limiting U.S. aid to Israel and warned against U.S. involvement in the military campaign to degrade Iran’s nuclear program, earning him a rebuke from Trump.
The former Fox News host said that “nothing would be more destructive to our country” than a U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“Now is the worst possible time for the United States to participate in a military strike on Iran,” he wrote on X in April. “We can’t afford it. Thousands of Americans would die. We’d lose the war that follows.”
MAGA voters, though, continue to hold negative views towards Iran, with 84 percent saying the Islamic Republic presents a threat to the United States. The poll found that 92 percent of Trump voters surveyed believe it is important that Tehran does not obtain nuclear weapons, with over 75 percent describing it as “extremely important.”
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