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
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Indoctrinated by leaders, well that’s false. We have a voting assistance officer that ensures we can register to vote, maybe if you ASK their opinion it is possible that it is republican. And to imply he is not a successful business man is laughable, maybe his failures is what motivated his success. It’s good to have an opinion but please don’t try and lie about small facts to try and boost your agenda.
Jordan Van Dusen, Your a no nothing, because everything that I said was factual & actually happen…. Dummy
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Lmfao!! Bernie?! Trump or Cruz will be the only 2 who will pump the money and make our military back to where it was pre-Obama! Liberals make our country weak!
Pat Heywood ………….. Just a billion Dollars ? Does the FACT that over 9 trillion has been added to the national debt mean anything ? or who all of this money has gone to ? To many people are missing the big picture and are at each others throats and can’t see the truth …………… If someone gave you a trillion $ and you had to spend a million $ a day. do you know how long it would take to spend it ?
Rick Van Harn, remember Bush 43 spent almost 16 trillion ( if you count the surplus ), & Obama first year of spending most of it was attributed from the Bush administration & obligations, including Medicare Part D ( 12 years later, the CBO estimated cost is 1.2 trillion, the Bush administration guessimate was 400 million ), & Obama had to spend to get us out of the ditch, that Republicans put this country into & then for the last 7 years have had selective amnesia…. And also remember that it was Ronald Wilson Reagan who turned this country from an creditor to a debtor nation….
Can you see the big picture ?
Absolutely, can you?
Troll who will never except the truth