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
Jamie Callahan Medicare and Social Security are socialist programs. Everything paid for with taxes is socialist. Ask yourself this simple question – who runs Social Security? Medicare is a form of wealth redistribution, again run by the government. You continue to embarrass yourself. The rest of your story is meaningless. There are numerous people of all wealth levels that are voting for Bernie Sanders. For example, Steve Wozniak, one of the co-founders of Apple endorses Bernie Sanders among other wealthy businessmen, actors, and musicians. On the flip side, he is endorsed by many unions for teachers, electricians, nurses, communication workers, transit workers and many more.
Like most Conservatives and especially Trump supporters, you have no idea what you’re talking about.
You my young fiend is who Bernie has in the dark. Your socialist ideology is based on the government controlling every aspect of your life. You’re for the corporations,businesses and taxpayers to fund the less fortunate in life to increase their standard of living because the evil capitalist system has done them so wrong. I will agree with you on programs like s soc.,unemployment benefits, medicare could be construed as socialism but only if everyone has contributed. It doesn’t work that way and neither will Bernie lame idea of income redistribution work and like I said you’ll never know until you start working and paying taxes . What do do think I s going to happen when your fearful Leader raises the tax for corporations, businesses And Individuals. Workers will quit and start drawing welfare, corporations will move laying off thousands ,businesses will shut down and you’ll be graduating with a degree in who knows what and still be living with your mom and dad with only your music and swing keeping you busy. You Won’t have A Family Because you Can’t fine A job, and no decent woman is going to want to live in a basement. Socialism has not worked anywhere except for a few minor countries where “everybody” is or has been part if the work force. That will not happen here because there has been too many freeloaders and still are who will not participate in your system. Welfare is socialism fed by capitalism.
I’m not going to read a huge block of more of your mindless, uneducated drivel.
And you are a screwed young man who just needs to grow up. I guess it is your beddy bye time . I hope you have someone up to tuck your baby$#%&!@*in bed . And one more thing isn’t it funny how Bernie is only strong amongst the young voters while Hillary Is whipping his Old $#%&!@*IN every other age group. The evil$#%&!@*is beating him in every ethnic group also. It’s probably Been a waste of our time anyway because he hasn’t a prayers chance of beating Hillary unless she’s indicted. So I’ll Shut Up finally And Let you get Back To Sleep. I apologize for any name calling. You’re probably a pretty good guy!
Take your ball and go home little buddy.
Stfu p***y
Josh Strigle—- You said you are in college on the *GI* bill!
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WERE YOU IN THE MILITARY?
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It’s a yes-no answer. One word
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Sergio Leone Sales taxes and tariffs. Do you think these things just magically pay for themselves?
Tony Johnston Sure was. Also, old people said the same thing about baby boomers. Called baby boomers the “me” generation and said they were a bunch of narcissists. Seems accurate.
We have found out in the last few months the GOP is not a friend to the AMERICAN people, At least our military was not downsized to a fraction of what it should be for our safety and security. The so called Democrats, socialist,communists, terrorists who make up the people in charge know………. You and everyone of us is in danger and if the CONSTITUTION means nothing to people anymore then schools and history has failed many. You can’t just blame the$#%&!@*head bush and Rumsy either. Because when Iraq and Iran were at war this country gave Iraq any weapon they wanted, INCLUDING WMDs which there is Proof they had them and they shifted them to SYRIA