More Americans oppose the U.S. strikes on Iran, as MAGA supporters line up with Trump

While this survey was in the field from Monday through Wednesday, Iran launched a retaliatory missile barrage at a U.S. military site in Qatar. Trump then announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, chastised both countries for appearing to break the terms and then congratulated them for stopping attacks. Meanwhile, questions still remain about the ultimate consequences of the U.S. strikes, including exactly what damage they did to Iran’s nuclear program.

Support for the airstrikes divided predictably along partisan lines. Among Democrats, 77% oppose the airstrikes, with 61% strongly opposed. In a near-mirror image, 78% of Republicans support the airstrikes, with 60% strongly supporting them.

Independents are much more divided, with 45% opposing the airstrikes, 21% supporting and 34% who neither support nor oppose the move — almost twice the share of the overall population who took the neutral position.

The lead-up to the strikes last week exposed a split in the Republican Party between those with isolationist tendencies in the MAGA wing of the GOP and those with more hawkish, traditionalist Republican Party foreign policy positions. A testy exchange between right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson and Sen. Ted Cruz illustrated the divide, with Carlson forcefully arguing that attacking Iran would betray the president’s “America First” promises.

But while there is a split among Republicans in the poll, it is an exact inversion of the public debate between prominent pro-Trump figures.

While all Republican factions support the airstrikes, respondents who identify with the MAGA movement are significantly more supportive of the strikes than those who identify as traditional Republicans. Though there are some high-profile dissenters on Iran within the MAGA movement, the rank and file of the movement is firmly in favor of the strikes.