If a new poll is to be believed, Donald Trump has earned the support of one of the most coveted voting demographics.
After surveying 931 members of the armed forces, researchers found that out of all the candidates running for president in both parties, Trump was the preferred choice for the majority of them. A solid 27% of the survey’s respondents said he was their favorite candidate, with his closest rival being socialist Democrat Bernie Sanders who came in at 22%.
More specifically, Trump enjoyed high levels of support from the Army and Marines, both of which saw 30% of respondents listing him as their choice. Although he wasn’t the preferred choice of respondents in the Air Force or Navy, he still had significant levels of support, with the branches having 23.58% and 22.35% of their members favoring him respectively.
The numbers are a major boon to Trump, who has been hounded by critics for his relative lack of foreign experience. Earning such impressive levels of support from servicemen will undoubtedly help him mute such attacks.
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Although Trump may lack traditional foreign policy credentials, the men and women of the military seem to think that he has a strong grasp on the subject and can be counted on to look out for the country’s best interests. Gaining the support of such an esteemed group alone is a worthy accomplishment for anyone seeking the presidency:
“The data seems to indicate that the GOP national security establishment’s attempt to discredit Trump’s foreign policy credibility has failed — at least as far as servicemembers are concerned.
Trump’s hardline stances on national security issues appear to have attracted dedicated support from members of the military, though several military officials have complained about his aggressive statements on torture and the killing of terrorists’ families, which Trump had to walk back.
Officers surveyed still favor Trump, albeit by a smaller margin than regular enlisted troops. Officers ranked Trump first with 21 percent support and Cruz second with 18 percent.
And even though Sanders has also been perceived as weak on foreign policy, that fact hasn’t hurt his polling numbers among servicemembers.
Despite Sen. Marco Rubio’s attempts to prioritize foreign policy in his platform and despite the Republican national security establishment essentially throwing all of its might behind his campaign, he ranks second to last in the survey.”
Source: Daily Caller
It would seem that judging by this poll, if it is real, that Obama has succeed in restructuring our military.
When men who took an oath to defend the constitution, prefer a man who would destroy it, you know something is very wrong.
Not to mention that a very close second was Bernie Sanders?
Well, it’s about what we thought anyway, that about half the military were insurgents and the other half are still good Christian, constitutional patriots.
Better than some thought the percentage would be, I told people that Obama couldn’t fully corrupt the military in 7 years, though he’s managed to take a huge chunk of it, no doubt hoping Hillary will continue to weed out the patriots if she wins.
The military votes were “lost” in the last election. Let’s hope they find their way to be counted this time!
Trump for President # 2016
ELECT TO PROTECT!! TRUMP 2016!! When all the rest are questionable to be Electable.
Anyone but Hillary.
Did trump served no so how in the$#%&!@*he understands and most of the service men they asked where white how accurate
If there are any left, Obama has gutted military leadership.
I am in our military and we continue to rotate ALL of our forces in the Middle East. There is no reduction. Don’t swallow everything your told by our government.
TRUMP 2016!!!
Donald Trump should give the servicemen more job security as we get engaged in WWIII.
Russia, China, North Korea are just waiting for Trumpf to start his diplomatic policy.
Ain’t no time to wonder why whoopee were all going to die.