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
You’re a fucking moron.
There was an outward in your face attempt to let you know your vote was your vote. That is no question. It was the more covert stuff that gets you there. My brother in law went in from a very liberal upbringing and was almost immediately turned to republican by peer pressure. It is well known in the military that they believe republicans make more wars and wars make more soldiers. Maybe you had an extremely liberal command or all of mine were unusually conservative but is saw what I saw. There were two of us who were willing to openly support democrats and it did t make either of us popular. Once I stopped talking about it I became more highly thought of by the officers in my command. Nobody told me I couldn’t vote democrat. They were not shy about telling me why o was wrong.
John McCain is one of my favorite political figures. He is a reasonably fair man who despises torture of any kind. He is also openly trying to take away my medical benefits that I earned by serving for 20 years. Democrats wrote bills to help military members find jobs and get mental health assistance. Republicans vote it down. Look at it any way you want one side tries to expand our benefits while even the most reasonable and military friendly on the other side fights to shrink them. Look it up.
By the way, enjoy that Tricare prime while you still have it. If we get a republican president and the congress stays the same it will be gone in a couple of years.
Josh Strigle, have you served?
Bradley Bedwell Yep
And you are insulted? You sit in you safe space and once someone says something about the military you get all butt hurt at the situation. You’re ok with sanders raising the taxes once again, making Americans front the bill so other won’t have to work hard for what you and I sacrificed years of service to get where we are at?
Bradley Bedwell It is 100% insulting. How can any veteran not be insulted by that? He may as well have said that those who died weren’t heroes either.
This idea that Bernie wants to raise taxes so other people can be lazy is complete nonsense. Did the military not instill a belief in you that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link? The importance of teamwork? I’m not sure how adding a single payer health care system and paying for public college like we do for K-12 is going to make people lazy. That doesn’t make any sense
The military itself is powered by socialism. And by the way, Bernie is easily the best candidate for veterans.
http://vetsforbernie.org/what-vets-say-about-bernie/
What a ridiculous and ignorant comment. Trump was not a politician, so it wasn’t his problem to solve.
No, I am NOT a Trump supporter.
What a laugher. Perhaps you can provide some of that documentation? After all, it’s well documented, right?!?!
Or is this from crackpots??