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
They’re all willing to sell us out. We’re just pawns. Trump worse than Cruz.
95 percent don’t approve of Obama!
Truth and Action? Truth: “Most” is not the majority!
This is a joke.
People start to get annoyed when they feel like you nailed it on the head. Just proves his point. This election is playing all the fools on different chords and different instruments. Everyone is getting played and watch, it will not come to popular vote, which means it is the most popular and majority of the voters, either it will come down to the delegates or it is going to have 1 person slightly better than the other, and it will either be Hillary, due to knowing how to manipulate the systems, not to mention she is worth more than the actor Dan Akroyd, just saying he has been in hollywood for a long time and also owns that skull tequila you at the liquor stores yet the clintons have almost 100mil more in net worth… Hmmm, Ya’ll are despicable and hate that this election will lead to something these supporters of his only dream of, but never want to get involved. This election will send us spiriling into a BS generation of people thinking they are tough, but never had to do$#%&!@*but sucker punch someone. Most of the people I see supporting this guy, I would not trust with my daughter, I would not want them necessarily spewing even their hate around my family, most I have overheard talking$#%&!@* but are too chicken$#%&!@*to say it to me. I will listen to you, but I will hold no remorse when I destroy your statement with facts, ratonalism, and empathy (something I suggest people attempt to use or sympathy if too safe to have been into a situation). Ya’ll spew hatred, and I am started to lose respect for everyone I hear say they are his supporter due to now I believe there is a severe lack of competence, severe lack of judgement, and a lack of love for human life.
He didnt insult Mexicans or all the garbage you misquoted. Do your homework before you twist the truth. We dont need illegal aliens here from any country coming here and stealing our jobs and last time I checked ~ We are the only country that has a border that is open all the other countries have walls. How ignorant liberal
one thing for sure, they can’t wait for the evil muslim king obama, to leave, so they can untie their hands, and fight the evil ISIS, freely, with out obama, hindering their efforsts
Darren Smith IT’S NOT A NASCAR RACE .WE ARE NOT FAN’S WE ARE REGISTERED VOTERS AND WE ARE SUPPORTING TRUMP OR CRUZ OR WHOM EVER .
Josh Strigle WELL I HAVE A HUSBAND WHO WAS IN GERMANY IN 1972 .A SON WHO WAS IN NATIONAL GRAD FOR 8 YEARS DURING IRAQ IN THE BEGINNING AND NEPHEW IN IRAQ 3 TIMES. ALL THREE AGREE.THAT MCAIN WAS NOT A “HERO” YOU USE THAT TERM LOOSLY.
Bella Orsi Yes, he did insult Mexicans. Don’t be ridiculous. If I said that your family are rapists and criminals, but some of them are probably good, you wouldn’t take that as an insult? Come on.
A border wall would cost us around 25 billion dollars to construct and then far more than that in maintenance over the years and it would do absolutely NOTHING to stop illegal immigration. On top of that, more illegal immigrants are leaving the US than are coming into it. A border wall would be a massive waste of money. That’s a fact.