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A majority of Americans, including a majority of Republicans and self-described MAGA Republicans, say keeping the United States in NATO is important to the country’s security and prosperity, according to a new poll.
The Reagan Institute Summer Survey found that 73% of Americans say staying in NATO matters to US security and prosperity, including 64% of Republicans and 61% of MAGA Republicans. Fox News Digital obtained a preview of the survey, which will be made public Sunday.
The poll also found bipartisan support for NATO’s collective defense principle. After respondents were told that NATO members have a responsibility to defend each other if attacked, 76% of Democrats, 71% of Republicans and 69% of MAGA Republicans said they would support the US responding with military force if a NATO ally is attacked.
The findings come as President Donald Trump continues to press NATO allies to shoulder more of the burden for the alliance’s collective defense. During a White House meeting on Wednesday with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, Trump criticized several European allies for what he described as inadequacies during recent US operations against Iran, as Rutte praised Trump’s leadership and praised him for pushing NATO members to increase defense spending.
A majority of Americans, including a majority of Republicans and self-described MAGA Republicans, say keeping America in NATO is important to the country’s security and prosperity, according to a new survey released when President Donald Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
The Reagan Institute Summer Survey was conducted May 26 through June 3 among 1,555 respondents nationwide and has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. The survey used a mixed-mode methodology that included live telephone interviews, an online panel and text-to-web responses.
To better reflect the US population, results were averaged using demographic benchmarks from the US Census Bureau’s 2023 American Community Survey, including age, gender, race, region and education levels. The poll also included an oversample of 331 MAGA Republicans under age 30, a group with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
The Reagan Institute Summer Survey found that 73% of Americans say staying in NATO matters to US security and prosperity, including 64% of Republicans and 61% of MAGA Republicans.
The Reagan Institute is a Washington-based policy organization that promotes the Reagan foreign policy tradition of “peace with strength” and continued American leadership abroad.
NATO’s collective defense principle, known as Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, has been invoked only once in the alliance’s 77-year history. NATO allies unanimously agreed to invoke this system after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, declaring an attack on the United States an attack on all members of the alliance.
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“We don’t need their money, we don’t need anything. We have the most powerful military in the world, but I just want to be honest,” Trump said.
NATO’s collective defense principle, known as Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, has been invoked only once in the alliance’s 77-year history. NATO allies unanimously agreed to invoke this system after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, declaring an attack on the United States an attack on all members of the alliance.
Trump has long criticized NATO members for failing to meet the alliance’s defense spending commitments – at times even threatening to pull out of the alliance – saying the US is shouldering the worst of its security burden.
In both his first and second terms, he pushed his allies to dramatically increase military spending while warning that the US should not shoulder the cost of Europe’s defense alone.
