Tamara Keith

One person I talked to was Jeff Hadley himself.

He drove down from Raleigh, North Carolina, to be here.

And he argues that Iran has been a threat for decades, but Trump was the only president that he says had the guts to do anything about it.

Yeah, I heard that from a few people, this idea of, oh, this isn't a new war, you know, kind of implying that Iran has been a threat to the US and there have been tensions for decades.

And so I think some people kind of fact check the argument of, oh, he's not starting a new war.

This is him ending one.

And I do think there are people within the base that are a little bit more cautious, like maybe they're willing to give Trump

more time to see his agenda through and feel confident in him.

But it's still, I think, for some people risky.

And that's how Andrew Belcher felt.

He's a student from Miami University in Ohio.

He's a college Republican.

And he told me he thinks Trump is prepared to handle this moment.

But he also said this.

We've seen in polling that when you peer behind the curtain, yeah, there's that overwhelming majority of Republican voters that are backing Trump and say his handling of.

the war has been good or they approve of it but then when you look at groups like you said independence but also you know another key group that really helped Trump on the margins was young voters especially young men and Pew Research Center has a new poll out that shows you know while Republicans as a whole more than 80% support the war that number drops to like just under half when looking at Republican voters under 30 and so you know it's not to say necessarily that people are

outwardly protesting, super opposing this idea, but there's less enthusiasm for it.

And as we know, in a midterm year, enthusiasm is a huge, huge factor in what brings people out.

Right.

And I feel like Trump has always been very perfective at kind of