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
So they can rape & pillage freely
Josh Strigle you are so ignorant it’s unbelievable. You think the Danish are happy taking home only half of there paycheck? Obviously you don’t know anyone that lives in Denmark. It’s called revolving debt and that’s the world they live in. You are only making yourself look stupid by regurgitating what you hear from a college professor.
Blake Sides http://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2016-01-20/why-danes-happily-pay-high-rates-of-taxes
Blake Sides https://www.howtoliveindenmark.com/stories-about-life-in-denmark/danish-taxes-denmark/
Who gives a$#%&!@*what the rest of the world thinks.
Libtard alert
Robert Emberton You sound just like Kim Jong Un.
Josh Strigle you want to give the Government all of our money! Who is the socialist totalitarian? You kinda remind me of me when i was young naive and stupid. Best we can hope for is you’ll grow out of it. Good luck!
Josh Strigle it’s funny you use a picture of Detroit because apparently you don’t realize it has been Democratic Party dominated like Chicago which is over 900 shootings this year due to LIBTARDs policy of blaming cops instead of blaming$#%&!@*bags! Sweden is so great that one of my buddies in my electrician school who was from Sweden he left Sweden to come to America so that says all I need to know right there about which country is stronger. Socialism fails always has and always will. Socialism=more government More government= less freedom and that is a fucking historical fact!
Mater Charitat lol are you even old enough to remember what the 80s were like? Socialism=more government more government= less freedom and that is a historical fact! I’m a decorated combat vet who has served underneath 3 presidents and hands down president Obama is by far the worst president of the 3 and more over the worst president in my life time. Trump is hands down the way to go when compared to Hilary the shadiest$#%&!@*alive who pisses away American lives with total disregard and Sanders who is a looney$#%&!@*socialist who thinks Cuba is a country to admire. Take your$#%&!@*down to Cuba and ask them how they feel about their government and if they would rather have what we have. This nation was built on immigration when we fucking had the jobs to back the immigration and when we don’t that is when all to often we hit a depression because we have more people than we do jobs in this country and as such on top of the welfare which is a socialist ideal it is driving our debt not our military spending. It’s huge taxes on business which we are the highest in the world and regulations which are the strictest in the world that is driving companies to leave America. You want to fix America it is by removing the government not making it fucking bigger we are 19 trillion in debt and your fix is to add more wasteful government? As Spok would say that is illogical! You clearly also are not paying attention to the mass immigration that is devastating Europe right now cause crime and destroying a countries economy.