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According to a new story from the Washington Post<\/u>, even as they gathered to watch and enjoy his UFC birthday spectacle, many of President Donald Trump\u2019s supporters still \u201cdon\u2019t fully understand\u201d his actions regarding Iran and other issues. What\u2019s more, as he has floundered in both mission and messaging, polls show that he\u2019s losing the very support bases that helped put him in office.<\/p>\n

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In an effort to sound out his supporters, the Post sent a reporter to a Buffalo Wild Wings in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where a crowd of his voters had congregated to watch the White House cage fight. While some expressed belief in Trump\u2019s endeavor in Iran, others \u201cwere skeptical.\u201d As one declared, the war \u201cisn\u2019t what we voted for.\u201d Another raised the specter of COVID, reminding how, much like with the war, Trump had asserted repeatedly that it would be over in \u201ctwo more weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe keep hearing it\u2019s almost over, it\u2019s almost over,\u201d said 26-year-old conservative Jon Showalter, who said he supported other Trump actions but questioned the war. \u201cWe could be right back to it three days from now.\u201d He noted that he wasn\u2019t convinced by the president\u2019s claims that Iran was verging on building a nuclear weapon, and that he doesn\u2019t \u201c like being a part of a war [where] I don\u2019t fully understand why.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Post explained, \u201cThe overwhelmingly young and male watch party audience also reflected the widening cracks in Trump\u2019s coalition, although most of his detractors were reluctant to be named criticizing him. Asked about the president\u2019s job performance, one 36-year-old Trump voter hesitated and then said: \u2018He\u2019s doing \u2026 a job.\u2019 Another, a 28-year-old three-time Trump voter, said the president had misled voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polling shows that the Post\u2019s claims aren\u2019t merely anecdotal. While young men swung from supporting Joe Biden in 2020 to narrowly helping Trump win in 2024, they\u2019re swinging back the other direction in a big way. As the Post explains, \u201cAn April Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll<\/u> found 70 percent of men ages 18 to 29 disapproved of Trump. And a Harvard Youth poll found this spring that among young registered voters who backed Trump in 2024, 72 percent said they would vote for a Republican candidate in the midterms compared with 89 percent of Kamala Harris voters who would vote for a Democrat.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As the Post notes, while the war is supposedly ending, \u201cthe political fallout could linger. The conflict has divided Republicans, alienated independents and intensified Americans\u2019 angst about the economy less than five months before the midterm elections. The attacks on Iran also frustrated some young voters drawn to Trump\u2019s past anti-war rhetoric, at a time when young men who helped power his 2024 victory were already turning on him\u2026 Americans are skeptical that the conflict was worth it, polls found.\u201d Only 25 percent of Americans say the war was worth the costs.<\/p>\n

According to longtime Republican pollster Whit Ayres, the war \u201cfeeds into preexisting concerns about inflation that was caused by tariffs and other policies. The war has not been popular from the start in part because the rationale was never clearly explained.\u201d <\/p>\n

This has been especially problematic with young voters who supported Trump out of the belief that he\u2019d keep the country out of war. As pollster John Della Volpe, who oversees the Harvard Youth poll, explained, \u201cClearly the experience that younger people are having, including younger people who voted for Trump, has not met the expectations or the promises they felt that Trump was making.\u201d<\/p>\n

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