Poll: Young conservatives are the strongest supporters of the war in Iran

For nearly two and a half years, beginning with Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks and the wars that followed in the Middle East, considerable attention has been focused on the emerging divisions within the Republican Party over foreign policy and support for Israel. 

On one side are figures like Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly, opposed to the war and elevating a strain of right-wing anti-Israel sentiment, often veering into outright antisemitism in Carlson’s case. 

On the other side, more traditional Republicans such as Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), along with pundits like Mark Levin and often President Trump himself, have argued for the strategic importance of the U.S.-Israel alliance and for confronting Iran on national security grounds. 

For their part, the media has eagerly amplified this division. Most recently, the resignation of Joe Kent — a senior counterterrorism official in the Trump administration — over objections to the war has been portrayed as exemplifying the growing Republican rift, which supposedly threatens the future of the U.S.-Israel relationship. 

While these divisions are real — even drawing in Trump, who last weekend castigated Kelly and Republicans opposing the war — the data simply does not support the idea that conservatives, especially younger ones, are turning away from Israel. 

Polling conducted by our firm, Schoen Cooperman Research, among U.S. adults under 30 years old who identify as ideologically conservative (“young conservatives”), suggests the opposite: Young conservatives are more supportive of the war against Iran than the public at large. 

While our firm’s prior polling found that U.S. adults overall are........

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