Trump voters tell ABC News that Iran’s attacks do not conflict with their first United States agenda

Stephen Caraway, 40, was driving home in Ohio on Saturday night when he saw the news that the United States hit three Iranian nuclear sites.

Caraway, a Republican who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, applauded the president in his “decisive leadership.”

“I am really proud of our army and grateful that the operation was a success and that everyone is safe,” News told ABC hours after the attack.

ABC News interviewed more than half a dozen Americans who voted for Trump in the 2024 presidential elections after the United States attacks in the Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday, but before they will go missiles in Qatar on Monday, pointing to the American air base Al-Edeid.

The majority, as Caraway, indicated support for US strikes, called Operation Midnight Hammer, and said they trusted Trump to protect and pursue US interests, including the prevention of Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, while keeping the United States out of a prolonged regional conflict.

“I am not worried about a long -term war, because President Trump will not bear it,” Caraway explained.

In a Post Washington survey on Wednesday, 46% of Trump voters said they would support air attacks, with the opposite 26% and 28% insecure.

Throughout the 2024 campaign, Trump promoted that he was “the only president in generations that did not start a war” and pointed out the need to avoid participating in “endless wars”, a promise that some non -interventionist republican leaders have accused him of betraying.

Although many Republicans have praised Trump’s actions, some prominent legislators and conservative figures opposed to military action continued to criticize the strikes on Monday.

“I did not sleep better after the Neocons and Belicists convinced this administration to enter a hot war that began Israel,” said representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, republican of G-GA.

“Maga is not for foreign wars. We are not for regime change. We are for the United States first,” Greene said.

Two voters told ABC News who were disappointed by Trump’s decision to attack.

“Trump broke his promise,” said Sean Savage, 81, from Illinois. “I’m afraid that this can become really big.”

However, Savage still remained in his vote for Trump in 2024. “There was no other option for me. I like most of what Trump has done, but this is something that I don’t approve,” he said.

Other Trump voters told ABC News who believed that Trump ordered attacks did not conflict with their first United States agenda.

“I think you can also see how to put our military interests and our foreign strategic interests in first place,” said Andre Boccaccio, a 19 -year -old boy from Arizona.

Trump “wants peace, and I think our country has to support it,” said Lauren, a 59 -year -old woman from California who refused to share her last name.

Lauren also told ABC News that Iran’s nuclear program could lead to even greater threats to the United States in the future.

“I am afraid for the future? Well, yes. But I think that if we do not disarm countries that have the ability to create a destructive war … it can climb, and our country and our growth will be in big problems,” he said.

According to Wednesday’s survey at Washington Post, 22% of Americans saw Iran’s nuclear program as an immediate and serious threat, and 48% saw it as a something serious threat.

Elana Pritchard, a 43 -year -old Texan, told ABC News that she saw weekend strikes as preventive, non -provocative.

“I really think he was just throwing a great blow,” he said. “They were trying to preventively stop what could have been more a growing crisis between Iran and Israel, which would probably have dragged the United States to the conflict anyway.”

Almost all those contacted by ABC News defended Trump’s decision to proceed without the approval of Congress, rejecting the argument made by several legislators that military action was unconstitutional.

“The process of declaring wars is outdated,” said Ronald Barron, a 46 -year -old voter from Georgia, saying that “it will be too late” for when Congress ended up voting.

“There is a very clear precedent that has been established by the commanders in chief” who need to “act quickly and quickly” to protect US security, Caraway said, Ohio’s Republican. “And let’s be honest with each other, Congress does nothing immediately and quickly.”

Ultimately, Trump’s supporters in recent elections did not trust the president to do the best for the country, and many pointed out the fact that they have access to national security intelligence that most Americans are not aware.

While Boccaccio described the action as “unexpected,” he said he believed that “there is a reason behind what we are doing.”

Before the attacks, Barron, Georgia’s voter, told ABC News that the Trump administration had been “horrible on the foreign side” in the first months of the president’s second mandate, and described Trump’s demands so that Iran would give up last week as “warming.”

But in a follow -up interview after the strikes, it was more optimistic about Trump’s strategy.

“He is doing it as a gangster,” American Gangster “, of type,” he said. “During the last 150 years, they have been having types of the company that have been doing the company’s line … so maybe we try something unconventional, something that is not even in books, that could work.”

Freddie, a 65 -year -old boy from Virginia, told ABC News that he had feelings found about the attack, and if Trump made the right call to order the strikes.

“I don’t know what leaders know, and I shouldn’t know what leaders know, so I can wait and see,” he said.

Anyway, he explained that Trump’s vision was molded more by his domestic agenda than by the conflict in Iran.

“When the war comes to your land, you get a little more involved in it,” Freddie explained. “But that’s in the middle of the world. It’s easy for me to say that I don’t care.”