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
How about this meme
I have a feeling they would like Rand Paul
“A solid 27%” seems to have a different meaning than what I’d say it means. Based on the headline I actually thought this would reveal something.
That’d be a sexy first lady…
I see a lot of jealous politicians, who can only pay for prostitutes that look this good, but made trump married a gorgeous woman.
So maybe we shouldn’t even bother with elections for you mouth breathers and just have a beauty contest….
I’m just laughing at civilians talking about military. … as though they know more than the ones who actually serve.
For fucks sake if you’re going to post a comment about how Trump has done some ‘mean’ or terrible things at least use some viable examples that are true.
You’re misinformed and a dip$#%&!@*josh. Forced a failing Health Care system? Traded known terrorists for a deserter? Stepped over Congress to do whatever he wanted to do? Plays golf when were threatened with a nuclear attack? Ready to open the doors to a Potential Threat to our whole country?Christians be slaughtered in genocide and does nothing? Really I can go on and on and on. He has not helped us. He’s trying to take away our gun rights our freedom of speech and our freedom to privacy. He’s the worst president in American history. In the most anti-American that ever stayed in the White House.
Glad to see you remember the Busche years, Violet. My Busche years were filled with beers that taste like c**p and terrible hangovers. Who’d want to return to that?
A lot of people received deferments while in college, and a lot of people would have gotten medical deferments if they had the ability. There were tons of people that wanted to not be drafted and did what they could not to. So what’s the point in singling out Trump because he received deferments like a large majority of other people? Because he decided decades later to run for president? Who cares. He’s one of the biggest supporters of veterans and their charities. Whether a veteran supports him or not is completely irrelevant to his deferments and has no bearing on it.