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hWen Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, her primary task was to defend President Donald Trump’s decision to launch an unpopular war with Iran. But beyond that narrow objective, the testimony from Gabbard — an ex-Democrat whose long-standing opposition to U.S. involvement in the Middle East prompted her to back Trump in 2024 — carried a deeper significance: a test of whether Trump’s heterodox political coalition can hold together despite its deepening divides on prominent issues.
By Ian Ward03/19/2026 05:00 AM EDT
When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday,
The war with Iran is stoking a fresh round of infighting within Trump’s GOP, a conflict that burst into the open on Tuesday when Joe Kent, one of Gabbard’s former top aides, abruptly resigned from his job, citing his objections to the administration’s actions in Iran. But Iran is far from the only issue dividing the Trump coalition: An x-ray of the Trump coalition reveals a multitude of hairline fractures on issues ranging from immigration to U.S.-Israel relations to fundamental questions of American identity.
With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, those divides have fueled speculation that MAGA voters might defect en masse from the GOP in November. But that’s not the primary threat facing the Trump coalition: Recent polling suggests that self-identified “MAGA Republicans” are standing firmly with Trump on the war and a host of other divisive issues, underscoring the stubborn reality that — as Trump has pithily put it — “MAGA is me.”
Gabbard, a former DINO supported Trump because she disagreed with Biden's Middle East policy, now as CIA Director, she twists herself into a pretzel defending Trump's Unconstitutional War in Iran. The price of loyalty to 47 is her own integrity. Not that she had any in the first place.
By Ian Ward03/19/2026 05:00 AM EDT
When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday,
The war with Iran is stoking a fresh round of infighting within Trump’s GOP, a conflict that burst into the open on Tuesday when Joe Kent, one of Gabbard’s former top aides, abruptly resigned from his job, citing his objections to the administration’s actions in Iran. But Iran is far from the only issue dividing the Trump coalition: An x-ray of the Trump coalition reveals a multitude of hairline fractures on issues ranging from immigration to U.S.-Israel relations to fundamental questions of American identity.
With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, those divides have fueled speculation that MAGA voters might defect en masse from the GOP in November. But that’s not the primary threat facing the Trump coalition: Recent polling suggests that self-identified “MAGA Republicans” are standing firmly with Trump on the war and a host of other divisive issues, underscoring the stubborn reality that — as Trump has pithily put it — “MAGA is me.”
Gabbard, a former DINO supported Trump because she disagreed with Biden's Middle East policy, now as CIA Director, she twists herself into a pretzel defending Trump's Unconstitutional War in Iran. The price of loyalty to 47 is her own integrity. Not that she had any in the first place.
