Move over John King, there's new screen royalty in town.
CNN's Harry Enten has taken the airwaves by storm with his vivacious, numbers-driven analysis turning him into a viral sensation.
The data guru, known for no-nonsense examination of the state of the Trump administration, delivered one of his biggest moments yet this week.
Citing a new NBC poll, he told viewers that support for Donald Trump amongst MAGA Republicans stood at 100%.
"You don’t have to be a mathematical genius to know you can’t go higher than 100%. He is the 1972 Miami Dolphins," he said in his quintessential New York style (I did the research, so you didn’t have to: The 1972 Miami Dolphins team achieved the only perfect season in NFL history).
Anyway, if you thought that the predominately "America First" wing of the GOP, long associated with non-interventionism, has a problem with Donald Trump’s war in Iran, think again.
Poll after poll has shown that a large majority of MAGA Republicans support the strikes.
Along with that NBC poll, a CBS News poll also released this week found that 92% of MAGA Republicans approve of military action against Iran.
The data has even caught the president’s attention, who on Wednesday night during a fundraising speech in Washington, DC, name checked Harry Enten and even the president himself said he couldn’t believe the numbers.
But the picture isn’t that simple.
Some analysts have argued that it shouldn’t be a major revelation that a MAGA base is 100% behind Donald Trump, considering this group consists of Americans that wholly support Mr Trump’s movement.
One opinion writer in the Washington Post put it this way: "For most Americans, "Do you identify as MAGA?" and "Do you support the president?" are essentially the same question".
And nowhere is the contradiction between America First and support of the Iran war more visible than in Vice President JD Vance.
Despite being a known vocal opponent of foreign conflicts, he has maintained his loyalty to President Trump during this war.
In the opening days of Operation Epic Fury, JD Vance remained in the long grass and refrained from making any major comments, only to emerge last week stating that he trusted President Trump to finish the job.
That scepticism and reputation for being non-interventionist could be the key to unlocking peace talks between Washington and Tehran, with reports that the Iranians have signalled they are willing to work with the Vice President.
Nevertheless, while the Vice President publicly backs the president, there are questions about how deep his and other MAGA support goes and how easily it could shift.
Half of republicans feel Trump has taken right level of action - poll
An Associated Press-NORC poll recently found that roughly half of Republicans say Mr Trump has taken the right level of action in Iran, but fewer want to see it go further.
According to Pew Research, about seven in ten Republicans and Republicans leaners approve of how Mr Trump is handling the conflict and think the US made the right decision.
Republican-leaning independents are divided with around half (52%) approving of the president's handling of the conflict, while 45% disapprove.
While a Quinnipiac poll showed that 58% of Republicans think the war with Iran has gone the way they expected to go for the US with 31% thinking the war has gone better than expected.
Among the 21% of Republicans that disapprove of the war in Iran - according to a Reuters-Ipsos poll - are notable MAGA supporters, including former advisor Steve Bannon, host Tucker Carlson and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
In an interview with Piers Morgan this month, Tucker Carlson said the Iran war was a "betrayal" of Trump supporters.
"Breaking faith with those people, those voters, the ones who actually got Trump elected and whose coalition promised a new day in American politics, that's a big deal. It's a betrayal on the level that I don't think people who aren't in those groups can understand, like, this is heartbreak. This is heartbreaking," he said.
Yet that disapproval wasn’t evident this week, as conservatives from across the country gathered in the Lone Star State for the major Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
This is one of the largest gatherings for Republicans each year, and despite Donald Trump’s absence for the first time in ten years, attendees rallied around him.
Speakers ranging from a prominent evangelist to a former Trump adviser and Iranian political activists took to the stage at the conservative gathering in Grapevine to argue the moral case for the war.
'This madness needs to stop'
While acknowledging that Americans are concerned about the prospect of a long, messy conflict, CPAC senior fellow Mercedes Schlapp used a session called "MAGA vs. Mullah Madness", that featured two Iranians shots during protests, to press the case for a war.
"The madness needs to stop. We've got to make Iran free again and we are going to make sure America stands strong by their side," Ms Schlapp, a senior adviser to Mr Trump during his first term.
During the first of the three-day event, no speaker criticised the military operation outright.
Former US Representative Matt Gaetz stood out as a rare voice of caution when he said that the US was too beholden to Israel’s interests.
One of the country’s best-known Christian evangelists, Reverend Franklin Graham framed the Iran war in religious terms when he told the audiences that the strikes on Iran was necessary to preserve Israel's existence.
However, concerns are growing among some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill about support for the Iran war and in particular, the messaging surrounding what exactly the objectives are and when it will be over.
Following a classified briefing, South Carolina Republican Rep. Nancy Mace, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that there is a gap between what the public is told in relation to the justifications for the war and the military objectives that committee members were told about.
"This gap is deeply troubling. The longer this war continues, the faster it will lose the support of Congress and the American people," she said on the social media platform X.
"I will not support troops on the ground in Iran, even more so after this briefing" she added.
One top Republican denounced the Pentagon Wednesday for failing to give lawmakers enough information about US military operations including plans for troops.
Republican Representative Mike Rogers, chair of the House Armed Services Committee, said that members had warned defence officials that troop movements in the region should be "thoughtful and deliberate".
Their comments reflect another aspect of recent data, and probably the most fascinating, that while Republicans support the conflict, they may not be fully convinced.
Opposition to Epic Fury may be more intense than support for it
A Yahoo News-YouGov poll conducted last weekend showed that 17% of Republicans disapprove of Mr Trump’s handling of Iran, but so did 24% of people who say they voted for him in 2024.
The same poll showed that only around half of Republicans and 2024 Trump supporters said they "strongly" support the way the President is handling Iran.
Compare that that to around eight in ten Democrats and 2024 Kamala Harris voters who "strongly disapprove".
One takeaway is that opposition to Operation Epic Fury may be more intense than support for it.
CNN’s Aaron Blake concluded that the opposition is "much more passionate... and around half of Republicans and Trump voters are either critical or lukewarm... which suggests they might not be on Trump’s side forever".
The YouGov poll also shows that 24% of Republicans said the war in Iran was not a good use of taxpayer dollars.
When asked how they would respond if gas prices rose by $1 per gallon, about a third of GOP supporters said the conflict would not be worth the cost.
Could concerns government spending and rising energy prices ultimately serve as a tipping point for wavering supporters?
We’ll soon find out.
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld pressed Donald Trump on Thursday on how he is addressing concerns among some MAGA voters as his war on Iran approaches the one-month mark.
"Let’s say they voted for you on the assumption of no wars, and then this happens, and it's inconsistent with their wishes. What would you say to them?" Mr Gutfeld asked.
"You can't let a madman, or you can't let a mad ideology have a nuclear weapon," he responded and added that Make America Great Again base "loves" his aggressive military campaign.
But Mr Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 36%, its lowest since his return to the White House, a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday found.
A new Fox News national survey found that some 64% of voters disapprove of how President Trump is handling Iran, up from 57% disapproval in January.
On foreign policy, 62% disapprove, up from 60% last month. US lawmakers are set for a two-week recess, starting this weekend.
They may face mounting pressure from constituents over high energy prices and long airport lines tied to a Department of Homeland Security shutdown, raising questions about whether they’ll return to Washington with cooler views on the war, if it’s still ongoing.
And if that support begins to shift, Harry Enten will be back after Easter with another message that will, for sure, catch the president’s attention.
This time for different reasons.
