Supporters of the MAGA movement are more likely than traditional Republicans to back the U.S. airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to a new poll from NBC News Decision Desk and powered by SurveyMonkey.
In the survey, conducted in the days after the U.S. bombed Iran, Republicans indicate broad support for the strikes — with 78 percent supporting the military intervention, including 60 percent who strongly support it.
But support is even stronger among the 54 percent of Republican respondents who consider themselves “more of a supporter of the Make America Great Again or MAGA movement” — compared to the 46 percent who consider themselves “more of a supporter of the Republican Party.”
Eighty-four percent of MAGA supporters support the strikes, including 70 percent who strongly support them. Meanwhile, 72 percent of traditional Republicans support the strikes, with 49 percent strongly supporting them.
Only 7 percent of MAGA supporters oppose the strikes, including 4 percent who do so strongly; while 17 percent of traditional Republicans oppose the strikes, including 12 percent who do strongly.
Ahead of President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran, high-profile figures associated with the “MAGA movement” — including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and others — came out sharply against the move, arguing military intervention was antithetical to the “America first” movement that has energized Trump’s MAGA base.
But the latest poll suggests those voices might be outliers in the broader MAGA movement.
A recent CBS News/YouGov poll revealed similar results — with 85 percent of Republicans overall backing the strikes, including 94 percent of those who identify as “MAGA Republicans.”
Both polls were conducted amid a rapidly evolving news cycle. While pollsters were in the field, Iran launched a limited retaliatory attack on a U.S. airbase in Qatar, and Trump later announced a ceasefire agreement had been brokered.
The NBC News poll was conducted June 23-25 and included 5,448 adults. The margin of error is 3.1 percentage points.