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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And our k-12 education system (which is socialist) prepares students for college. Not jobs, not balancing a budget, nothing about mortgages or anything really useful for anything but to continue education. So we will prepare you for college but not let you go. I think we should fund more technical high schools also.
Jerrad Coy, unfortunately you are correct! I really believe this president hates America!
You don’t hear a word if a police officer or military person looses their life…. Though he will make sure and say its not the Muslims attacking us! Really, us, Europe, am I missing something?
931 were surveyed, not statistical of the number of people in the service. Not the mean number at all. Means nothing
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Jerrad Coy I am tolerant, but when you’re wrong, you will be corrected.
Larry McGinnis There is absolutely no basis to say that Obama doesn’t love his country. The country has greatly improved during his presidency.
Bernie has done a lot more for our military and vets
Josh Stirgle. Get off your high horse. McCain is no hero. Just because he was captured doesn’t make it so. He has done nothing for the real Herod here in Arizona, and that$#%&!@*is our senator. Trump has more
qualifications to run for president than any other person running. This
country should be ran like a
business, and who better to run a business? A businessman. Stopping with your useless babbling, name 1 thing that the Muslim in the White House has done to show his love of this country? Just 1 shouldn’t be to difficult.