Domenico Montanaro

Clearly, Trump wants out of this war.

It's unpopular.

And while polls are showing Trump's base largely supporting him now, the longer it goes on, I mean, the worse it likely would get for him.

As it is, there's been no rally around the flag effect for Trump.

This was a war of choice.

There's certainly a threat that Iran posed for a long time, but the U.S.

wasn't attacked here.

And his America First base has long believed Trump was someone who would keep the U.S.

out of wars, not start new ones.

I mean, that is how he campaigned.

And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

Well, I mean, this was a president who promised to fix prices and stay out of wars.

And there are two types of people when it comes to how they vote in politics.

You're either kind of on board with a person or personality, or you want somebody to enact the kinds of things you want to see done in the world.

And there's always obviously some crossover and mixing between those two things.

But when you're high profile influencer types like

Megan Kelly and Tucker Carlson, who are on the conservative side, former Fox News hosts, they are people who follow this every day and who I think believed in a certain kind of direction that Trump was taking the country, not necessarily how Trump puts it, that he is MAGA.

Now, that does not mean that this fraying we're seeing with these high profile people is filtering down to the rank and file, because most people in the rank and file and Trump's base believe in Trump and they will continue to do so.

And in fact, the people who are self-described, quote unquote, MAGA.

in polling are higher in approving of the job Trump is doing, are higher in believing that the war in Iran was the right decision in the polling that we've looked at so far.