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
America there’s a lot of concern where we are heading with our 2016 election – here’s the picture we are creating –
Democrats – we are fixing to nominate a crook that should behind bars in a prison – where she should be eaten up with her conscious –
Republicans – hopefully we the people wake up before it’s too late – if we fail Donald Trump – then we will be enabling the GOP to force a nominee through corruption – as they will not go with the majority of the votes candidate – so in essence we are electing a crook for the POTUS – how do we explain our ignorance to our future generations – how do we explain the imbalance in our liberal Supreme Court – we can’t afford to continue down this road – we have young families struggling to pay up to $10 or more a day for their children’s school lunches when illegals sit opposite the table and eat free lunches. What’s really sad is what about American kid that’s ashamed to sit down at the lunch table because he hasn’t any money to get a lunch. No legal American child chooses to go hungry either. Do you see any illegal immigrants being required to serve jury-duty while hard working working class loses income from serving and held in contempt of court if they choose not to do so. We the people need to wake up before it is too late and vote for the FUTURE of OUR people not the politicians people.
When someone “insults” an individual and that individual happens to be disabled, that doesn’t mean he is “insulting” every disabled vet. To assume something like that Is ignorant.
Joshua Oakley Trump has insulted POWs, a disabled reporter, and Mexicans. He has made sexist comments towards Carly Fiorina. He was slow to reject support from white supremacists. $4 million dollars of the $6 million he raised for veterans is “missing” and didn’t reach any veterans organizations. He has filed bankruptcy 4 times for his businesses. Leaders of our allied nations around the world are starting to be nervous that Trump could actually become President. Earlier, they assumed the American people wouldn’t be so stupid as to vote him into office, but are not becoming afraid he could become President. Trump is a disaster.
Sorry jack$#%&!@* But we are not ignorant.
We are aware.
Trump insulted Mc Caine and Mc Caine has shown himself to be pretty bad.
Trump already does quite a bit for veterans.
Perhaps it’s you who are ignorant.
and many of us Veterans support him because he will look out for the veterans.
Exactly where are you coming from.
There is No other choice if you have a clue.
I was in the air force and not voting democrat.
To the folks that are denigrating Trump’s business successes: name one of Sanders’ successful business ventures…
If Mr BS was so pro-military, why does he want to tax the$#%&!@*out some of us?
……PRESIDENT…T R U M P…! GOD Bless America !
Records are public, do your research.