AMERICANS FIRST

Polling the People

At The Vandenberg Coalition, we believe American Foreign Policy should be of, by, and for the American people. Many pundits, like well-known podcaster Tucker Carlson, have sought to describe their personal worldview as that of Trump’s supporters, but is it really?

To answer that question, we decided rather than trusting elite pundits, we should trust the voters themselves. That is why every month from June to December 2025, we will be publishing a series of polls conducted by top-rated GOP polling firm TargetPoint to survey Trump voters’ attitudes toward national security—what their vision of the U.S. role in the world should be, how they assess current American foreign policy, and how they react to breaking news of the day.

This is the only monthly poll of its kind. Overtime, we’ll assess how different policy actions affect perceptions of American power and American support to see where the actions of the administration align with its voter base, and where they fall short. Check out the results of each month below.

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