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
TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT IN 2916!!!
These are fearless protectors. This poll says a lot. Some things could change between now and then, but our military is the best. Thank you. Your opinions should mean the very most to all of us here in the U.S. feeling free thanks to you. And again, thanks. 🙂
Trump at 27%. Sanders at 22%. Sanders? Seriously?
TRUMP NOW
To be expected. It’s a well known fact that the brains in the military are in the AirForce and of course, Trump doesn’t have their vote. 27% isn’t very overwhelming either considering the service men and women notoriously vote conservative (job security, funding). All in all, I’d have to lean more towards a military failure then Trump being a military front runner. Did you actually read the article? Not very impressive.
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Oh and Bernie did dodge the draft. Again, get your facts right.
There you have it Trump ! Our military needs a real leader not the pos poloticians
Here’s a look at Trump’s proposed policy positions. Now stop your pathetic sniveling and stop supporting little bitches for pseudo-intellectual reasons.
DONALD TRUMPS POSITIONS
TAX PLAN:
— If you are single and earn less than $25,000, or married and jointly earn less than $50,000, you will not owe any income taxes
— A simpler tax code with four brackets – 0%, 10%, 20% and 25% – instead of the current seven. Eliminating the marriage penalty and the Alternative Minimum Tax.
— Eliminate the death tax
— Businesses will pay no more than 15% of their business income in taxes BUT reduce or eliminate most deductions and loopholes available to the very rich.
(See Trump’s website for detailed tax plan)
IMMIGRATION/BORDER SECURITY:
3 Core Principals
— A nation without borders is not a nation.
— A nation without laws is not a nation.
— A nation that does not serve its own citizens is not a nation.
MAKING MEXICO “PAY FOR THE WALL”
— For many years, Mexico’s leaders have been taking advantage of the United States. The cost to taxpayers has been in the hundreds of billions. Mexico makes billions off our bad trade deals and in remittances sent from illegal immigrants back to Mexico ($22 billion in 2013 alone).
The cost of building a permanent border pales in comparison to what taxpayers have incurred. Therefore, Mexico will incur fees and/or restrictions until the wall is paid for (see Trump website for details)
— Defend The Laws And Constitution Of The United States
— Triple the number of ICE officers.
— Nationwide e-verify.
— Mandatory return of all criminal aliens.
— Defund sanctuary cities.
— Enhanced penalties for overstaying a visa.
— Cooperate with local gang task forces. ICE officers should accompany local police departments conducting raids of violent street gangs. All illegal aliens in gangs should be apprehended and deported.
— End birthright citizenship. This remains the biggest magnet for illegal immigration. By a 2:1 margin, voters say it’s the wrong policy, including Harry Reid who said “no sane country” would give automatic citizenship to the children of illegal immigrants.
— Put American Workers first: (see website for details as to how minority workers have been hurt by illegal immigration)
— End welfare abuse for illegals.
— Jobs program for inner city youth.
— “Refugee program for American children” (see website for plan to ensure children without homes are placed in safe environment)
— Immigration moderation. Before any new green cards are issued to foreign workers abroad, there will be a pause where employers will have to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed immigrant and native workers.
PLAN CONTINUED
— eliminating NAFTA, KORUS, TPP, and eliminate Favored Nation Status with China and any other nation that dumps cheap labor-made products into the United States AND start imposing import tariff taxes at the border,
— provide the incentive to allow US companies to repatriate their offshore profits back into the U.S. OR disincentivise them by charging tariffs on their imports,
— require that repatriated profits be used to hire US workers to build US factories and then hire US workers to work in those factories.
— you can cut govt. workers and the military as needed and hire those displaced workers to work in the newly-built factories, thus eliminating workers reliant on taxpayer money.
— more new taxpayers means shrinking budget deficits, without having to raise taxes or cut tax spending, also resulting in tax surpluses to be used for public sector infrastructure jobs and/or to pay down the national debt.
— critics of Trump’s tax plan never include the billions of dollars in new tax revenues generated by the millions of new private sector workers; the billions of dollars in reduced gov’t spending from the unemployed, gov’ t workers, and military that are transferred to the private sector; and the billions of dollars in import tariff taxes collected at the border on foreign imports.
— It is a win-win for everybody. Even US labor unions are for this type of job creation.
— Big business and corporations dislike Trump because this plan would force them to spend money for capital improvements to move their manufacturing processes to the United States and pay higher wages to American workers than they currently pay in cheap labor countries.
Keep in mind….the goal is to return the good-paying manufacturing jobs back to the US that have plummeted, and to eliminate the negative balance of trade that have occurred after Clinton signed NAFTA into law in 1993 and after Clinton gave China Most Favored Nation status in 1995.
Sources for Liberals who can’t understand Economics, Government, and business:
Trump right on trade
http://www.breitbart.com/…/trumps-got-it-right-on-trade/
60% of Americans pay little Federal tax
http://www.cnbc.com/…/top-1-pay-nearly-half-of-federal…
Trump’s top marginal rate is 25%
http://www.cnn.com/…/politics/trump-60-minutes-tax-plan/
A negative trade balance caused by globalization has ruined the US economy
https://ourfuture.org/…/trade-deficit-causes-bad-gdp…
Trump would break the NAFTA Agreement
http://time.com/4051371/donald-trump-nafta/
Trump to impose 25% import tariff taxes on China
http://www.msnbc.com/…/donald-trump-wants-tax-the-world…
Trump to impose 35% import tariff taxes on Mexico
http://michiganradio.org/…/trump-says-he-would-impose…
Trump’s plan to repatriate corporate profits
http://www.phillyvoice.com/trump-promises-tax-corporate…/
Trump to create new jobs
http://www.foxbusiness.com/…/donald-trump-will-be…/
Labor unions may endorse Trump
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/labor…/article/2573359
Big business hates Trump
http://money.cnn.com/…/economy/donald-trump-wall-street/
Voting is done by people, not polls. I don’t trust polls for anything. Polls are determined on a percentage of a norm, and not on the whole.