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
85% to 90% of our soldiers have always preferred Conservatives. It is a known FACT!! They know who actually supports and LOVES THEM!!!!!!!!!!!
Cindy Lufkin Trask Those things really don’t matter. Do you really think it’s ok for him to talk about committing crimes and inciting violence and then saying “I changed my mind” afterwards? Come on. Trump has insulted vets, Mexicans, Muslims, the disabled, and his own voters. Trump only denounced hate groups when being pressed on them. It took him an awful long time to denounce white supremacists. It’s not that he is against illegals – it’s that he insulted Mexicans with outright lies. With Muslims, he suggested$#%&!@*style registries. He was thinking about suing a journalist because he didn’t lile what she said about him
Josh Strigle, I sincerely Hope all the people in Oregon are’nt as ignorant and misinformed as You. If so Oregon has a BIG problem. Where have you been the last 7 yrs. In CAVE IN THE mountains of Oregon??? The Socialist in the White House has decimated our military! The army is the smallest since before World War all. The Navy is the smallest since World Warl. He ask them to go fight but, ties their hands and does not give them the weapons or supplies they need. He claims he is decimating ISIS and are controlling their expansion. He sends us to bomb them, but 2 out 3 planes return to their ships or bases loaded with their bombs, because Obama will not let them bomb!!! He knew ISIS was getting wealthy by black market Oil sold to Turkey but refused to bomb the oil trucks or oil fields, because of environmental concerns. He has let 1800$#%&!@*Islamic Terriosts mastasized into a 75,000 to 80,000 ARMY!!!! He dropped supplies and arms to the So-Called Moderate Rebel Muslims, who just so happen to turn into ISIS. Droning a Toyota pickup with five terriosts will not win this HOLY WAR. He lies constantly to the American people about the war. He tells we are winning. Not True. He has let thousands of Christians be slaughter alone with Assyrians, Yaysedis and other Shire minories. He has caused much of the Animosity against our policemen resulting in many getting shot. He has fostered a Divide like I have”nt seen since 1968!!! He has used his Penbto circumvent Congress and the Bill of Rights and Constitution!!! He hacounts tried to make his own laws to make his own agenda, which is destroying ourb
Destroyed our economy by making so many regulations that it has stifed growth of business
Trust me it’s not obama
Who has acted like a dictator like$#%&!@* you must be talking about the one in the White House. At least I know Donald Trump has the know how and how to make jobs and businesses. He is a proven success story. The dude in the White House has not even run a lemonade stand let alone a pota-Potty business. He celebrates rioting Thugs, agitaters, misfits, Communists while tearing down our fabric of the country. He has stuck his nose in State affairs where he should have. Like Ferguson No. Travonne Martin Skip Wells in Cambridge, where he said the policemen acted stupidly. He has said thus not a Christian Nation, when we were founded on Judean- Christian principles not the Islamic Muslims he promoted as well as Islam. He has killed the coal mining business and tried to shut down the Keystone pipeline they killed over 50,000 jobs. Where were the @6 million shovel-ready jobs he promised???? We are less secure and are 19 trillion two hundred billion dollars in Debt. He will have doubled our deficient by the end of this year. That is more than the other 43 administrations combined. This is a war. During World War all we dropped 350,000 tons of bombs on German Cities to destroy the German War machine that was responsible for over 60 millions deaths. We killed 58,000 in one night in Cologne!! We fired bombed Tokoyo and killed over 59,000 people, men, women and children. You know the story about the Atomic Bombs we dropped on Hiroshima 70,000 people died in Nakisaka another 75,000. These people are committing Genocide and you are worried about a little collateral damage!! This is a death Cult that wants total World$#%&!@*or destruction!!! They must be stopped by any means necessary!!! Endbof Story!!! Get educated before you run your mouth!!!! GI TRUMP 2016!!!!
Greg Rickey Janeau very well put my friend
Appreciate it, Terry Tweedy. Thanks
No brainer.
They’ll want to block their votes