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
Obama has run up the dept,has weaken our relationship with Russia, Israel, and even China, cost the tax payers more money with Obama care divided this country.Bernie Sanders wants to cut even more of our Military weakening our country,raising min wage to $15 is to much I can see maybe $10 got to take baby steps, just remember raising min wage and everything else will go up to balance cost of living.Bernie,Hillary,Ted,and Trump none of them worth a vote.
I know it’s hard to read everything from before you jumped into this…
Not to mention, bernie hasn’t done$#%&!@*for the military. If he were to win, our military moral would continue to drop, as he continued to downsize, and probably cut our pay (cuz uneducated thugs need our money more than we do)
James Wilson Bernie Sanders was also a draft dodging coward and Hillary Clinton is a soldier killer they are both no better than Trump
If you didn’t serve, you would understand. Trump got 4 college deferment’s. Then his 5th was for a medical. All he had to do, is use his medical the first time. No need for, 4 more deferment’s. Guess what, nobody can find his medical documentation for bone spurs. If you remember Trump didn’t know which foot it was. Like I said, you didn’t serve. Joe Biden was drafted and went for his physical. He failed because of his Asthma. Doctors wouldn’t clear him and he was sent home. Please don’t talked about Romney. He just is a blow hart. Chaney got 5 deferment’s because he was kicked out of Yale twice. Going back each time. He got another deferment. His last deferment was because his wife got pregnant. Bill Clinton got his deferment’s because he was a Rhode’s Scholar. He never joined ROTC. College deferment’s are the lucky guys. Trump got 4 and the 5th was bogus.
You do realize Sanders is a drat dodger and Hillary is a soldier killer along with Trump and Cruz they are all worthless
Bernie Sander was a Conscientious Objector. Get your fax right.
Michael M Wright sorry about your Cnn facts and that you dont want to believe that CNN is wrong but they are David Cummings is right
Tim Staton, bernie bots will not even acknowledge or address that a min wage hike to 15 will negatively effect all who already earn at or above 15.
They don’t care, because they aren’t in that tier.
So, with bernie we get.. added taxes, raised cost of goods, weaker military, further strain on foreign allies, and of couse global warming is the cause for radical islam… so solving global warming = world peace????
Silly liberals…
Bernie Sanders will weaken our Military he wants to cut our Military get rid of our nukes, while our enemies make more, you cant protest everything witch is Sanders stand on everything to Protest. In time America will be the laughing stock of the world.
Talking about Sanders