A few of President Donald Trump’s supporters stated they assist the administration’s latest efforts to additional America’s pursuits on the earth’s security by action in Venezuela and potential military intervention in Iran and Greenland. However others have been extra conflicted.
President Donald Trump speaks on the Detroit Financial Membership, Jan. 13, 2026 in Detroit.
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ABC Information spoke with a few of Trump’s 2024 voters who responded to the late October ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll on the Trump administration, the financial system and since-concluded authorities shutdown.
Kay Wattigney, a voter from Louisiana who’s retired, advised ABC Information she supported Trump’s selections on Venezuela — together with the seize of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
“I simply assume he is doing the precise issues,” she stated of Trump, including that Maduro and his authorities “weren’t [doing the right things] … so he tried to motive with him. They didn’t hear.”
However she stated that she feels extra unsure over potential motion in Iran or Greenland, and that she would “hate our males to get damage” if there have been potential U.S. navy motion.
Robert Rose, a caregiver in Arizona, stated he was “completely elated that the USA, because the assumed enforcer of worldwide regulation — and assumed by each different nation on the earth, that if one thing occurs, the USA goes to maintain it.”
Smoke rises from explosions in Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 3, 2026, on this display seize of a video obtained by Reuters.
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As for Iran, Rose stated he doesn’t need boots on the bottom, however pointed to how the navy may additionally use cyber operations or technological, covert operations in opposition to the regime.
“My concept of a navy motion is one thing that’s superior and could be an motion that’s painless however efficient; that isn’t deadly, nevertheless it’s nonetheless much more efficient than if it have been to be deadly,” he stated.
He added that he does not assume the White Home must be clearer about attainable several types of navy actions: “It is lower than the White Home to color a particular image.”
On Greenland, Rose stated he sees the nation as a “strategic necessity for us these days, being poised between China and Russia,” however would need to perceive extra in regards to the conversations between Denmark and Trump, and if any have led Trump to debate probably responding militarily.
Denmark and European allies have pushed again on Trump’s feedback on the matter, with Danish Overseas Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen saying there’s not an “on the spot menace from China and Russia — no less than not a menace we won’t accommodate.”
A Greenland flag flies close to the flag of Denmark, March 11, 2025, in Ilulissat, Greenland.
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Janelle Manes, a self-employed voter in Wisconsin who owns her personal enterprise, shared a differing opinion. She advised ABC Information that she doesn’t agree fully with Trump’s choice to strike Venezuela and take Maduro.
“I do not know the legalities behind that,” she stated, including that she believes the transfer is “nice for the residents of Venezuela, completely.”
Whereas conflicted about whether or not the transfer was proper, she stated she does consider the explanation the Trump administration made the transfer is due to drug trafficking, to not faucet Venezuela’s oil. Trump has said that the motion in Venezuela was an anti-drug regulation enforcement operation, although Venezuelan leaders have denied the federal government is concerned in narcotics.
Manes additionally stated she was against potential navy motion in Greenland.
“I don’t agree with the USA making an attempt to come back by and take over Greenland,” she stated, contrasting it with Alaska, as soon as a territory that the U.S. bought from the Russian empire.
Danish and Greenlandic officers have beforehand stated the island is not on the market.
Christopher Friedman, a probation officer in Washington state, advised ABC Information that he voted for Trump primarily primarily based on home points corresponding to crime and the financial system.
He stated he felt detached in regards to the Venezuela operations, since he doesn’t really feel any direct affect to his life or know anybody from there.
Friedman stated he did personally assume the Iranian authorities was restrictive and a “dangerous regime,” however relating to the U.S. taking motion, Friedman stated, “I do not assume we’ve got any, essentially, any main pursuits in going there and intervening. I feel the folks of Iran must carve out their very own future.”
Iranians attend a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, January 12, 2026.
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As for Greenland, Friedman stated he didn’t assume the U.S. will take any navy motion there.
“I don’t assume the U.S. ought to intervene militarily … I do not assume a bodily battle is important no less than with our European neighbors, the place, in such circumstances, the place we may negotiate a peaceable end result or transition into one thing that possibly all three events agree [on], as a result of this is a matter with the U.S, Denmark, after which, in fact, the folks of Greenland included,” he stated.
“So there’s three events right here of curiosity, and I feel there’s three events then to fulfill.”
He added that he’s not against a possible buy of the territory, given how the U.S. beforehand bought Alaska from the Russians or Louisiana from the French — though he stated the worth of the territory might be regarding given the USA’ present nationwide debt.
The break up among the many voters who spoke with ABC Information over the finished or potential interventions is just like how Individuals are largely break up on them extra broadly, in line with latest polling.
A Quinnipiac College ballot published Wednesday discovered that 70% of U.S. voters say the U.S. shouldn’t become involved in Iran if protesters within the nation are killed whereas demonstrating in opposition to the Iranian authorities, together with majorities of impartial voters (80%), Democratic voters (79%) and Republican voters (53%).
That ballot additionally discovered that registered voters are roughly break up on the Trump administration’s seize of Maduro, with 47% in assist and 45% opposed. A majority of Republican voters (85%) assist it, whereas a majority of Democratic voters (79%) oppose it.
A separate Reuters/Ipsos ballot published on Wednesday discovered that two-thirds of Individuals (66%) are involved that U.S. efforts to accumulate Greenland will harm the NATO alliance and the U.S. relationship with European allies, together with about 9 in 10 Democrats, 7 in 10 independents and 4 in 10 Republicans.
ABC Information’ Mariam Khan and Emily Guskin contributed to this report.
