'Tucker Carlson Be Darned!': CNN Data Chief Flags How GOP Feels On Trump's Iran Strikes

CNN’s chief data analyst Harry Enten argued Tuesday that it’s “so important to note” it’s still President Donald Trump’s Republican Party as he pointed to polling showing that the majority of the GOP is on board with the president’s strikes on Iran.

“Tucker Carlson be darned!” said Enten, in a reference to the ex-Fox News host who has been notably opposed to America’s involvement in Israel’s war on Iran.

Enten dismissed claims that MAGA world “wouldn’t necessarily” like the strikes by noting that 76% of Republicans backed the president’s military action whereas 18% of the party disapproved of it, per an average of recent polls from CNN/SSRS and Reuters/Ipsos.

MAGA world, which was mostly in step with Trump’s decision to strike Iran, has shown cracks in its coalition in recent days.

Prominent right-wing figures like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) notably disagreed with Trump’s decision but later praised a ceasefire agreement he brokered between Israel and Iran, thanking the president for pursuing “PEACE.”

Steve Bannon commended the strikes but declined to back a possible U.S. push for a regime change in Iran.

Earlier in the CNN segment, Enten noted that Americans’ overall net approval rating (percent approval minus percent disapproval) of the strikes in both the CNN and Reuters polls sat at -12 points and -9 points, respectively.

The figures, he said, “surprised” him as airstrikes typically “rank fairly highly” among Americans.

He turned to an average of CBS News and Fox News polls from 2014 showing Americans’ net approval rating of U.S. strikes against ISIS was +58 points.

CNN’s John Berman noted that the most recent polling on strikes against Iran could change depending on whether the ceasefire — which Israel and Iran both initially broke — continues to hold or not.