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
not surprised, if our Military wants Trump who are we to stand in the way, we are Civies, we shouldn’t even be allowed to vote until we have served in the military, Then maybe we would have a Slight Idea what we were doing/voting for.
This is satire, right? I mean drumpf, really?
Not serving because you’re against war vs not serving because you’re an entitled brat is the difference I see in them. If you can’t understand the difference then you would benefit from bernies education plans haha
I’m not surprised. He’s the only one I’ve heard speak that actually SEEMS like he cares about us. It’s a big deal to a lot of us.
Here’s Josh along with other liberals lol
Hasn’t Bernie been working IN government to fund the VA more. Like he’s actually tried and been doing something to benefit the vets. Trump just says he “respects them” and is the guy for the military.
I think Bernie has actually stood up for vets. He has been voting and working to get better insurance and for more funding for the VA. He has actually done something about it….
Heidi GC those ranchers set a forest on fire……
I think you guys think that ALL college will be free to every single person. I don’t think that will be the case. Down here in Florida we have a thing called: Bright Futures. And it’s a scholarship, aka free college, for residents that graduated high school here and maintained a high gpa. That gpa has to also be maintained in college. And you can only go to public universities, not every school. And if we give the opportunity to some of these low income families, at least the ones that give a$#%&!@*and will try, a chance to go to college and get better jobs, don’t you think it would take more people off of welfare? If they go to college and get a degree and then get a good job then they won’t be on welfare, and be bumped up to the middle class and thus paying taxes. So you can pay for them to be on welfare for their entire lives or for 4 years for college. Your choice. And usually kids that grow up in middle class stay in middle class and it would shrink the welfare community.
Trump 2016