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
I don’t want to jump back in again but where Is it written in our Constitution that we as Americans are entitled to health care,higher education ,free housing,free condoms,free abortions, free school lunches,free telephones, free food stamps, Free welfare checks, free legal advice,free basically everything. It’s not. The government’s basic responsibility is for the protection of this country and it’s people. People who are provided all of these free things are more prone to bad health, i.e .smoking, alcoholism, drug use ,venenariel diseases, obesity etc.than people who have to get up and go to a job everyday. Yet you tell us it should be up to other people to take care of me regardless of how I live my life. It might be just babel to you but not for the majority of people. Sorry.
Just remember 7/11..enough said
It’s a proven fact that Bernie was a conscientious objector. Look it up.
this somewhat reflects the public as a whole wanting someone not considered part of the established parties – Sanders or Trump. Clinton and Trump both have negatives, but many servicemen keep having Clinton’s “what difference at this point does it make” remark on the Benghazi deaths ring in their ears. Not so much placing blame on her as thinking that they’ll go in harms way with her saying that on their deaths
Jamie Callahan You literally have no idea what you are talking about on any subject,except on one thing – the government’s primary responsibility is to protect the government and its people. First of all, we give financial assistance to poor people because wealth is tied to health. Poor people have more health problems because their access to good food and medical care is limited. Drug use is not higher among poor people. Every single time there has been state drug testing of welfare recipients, the state finds that very few welfare recipients were found to use drugs and the program to test them was significantly more expensive than the welfare savings by denying benefits to drug users. We provide free condoms because it reduces unwanted pregnancies and saves states money and because preventing infectious diseases through condom use is a no-brainer. We provide free abortions because when you deny people abortions, they will do back alley abortions that are dangerous. If by free housing you mean shelters, if they’re so great, why don’t you go live in one? Free legal advice has nothing to do with the government unless you are talking about your Constitutional right to an attorney. If the majority of people are as ignorant to public health and as morally bankrupt as you then this country is going straight to hell and it isn’t worth caring about.
Josh Strigle- i don’t know whats wrong with you but i bet it’s hard to pronounce. The$#%&!@*just flows from your mind to your fingers like a river of dung. We give money to the poor cause the Federal Government created a welfare state so they will have power over the citizenry. As Jamie Callahan correctly articulated there is no healthcare, education, housing, Obama phone, food stamps anywhere in the Constitution. You believe that cause you are a suck off of society. I also don’t believe you served in the military. I think you’re a f**e and a liar. Prove me wrong…here’s your chance. Otherwise squat and p**s like a woman.
I can tell Josh once again my young man, here we go again. You probably live in a sheltered gated community where you have not seen the other side. I live in the delta along the Mississippi not in Northwest America. The highest rates of obesity, alcoholism, tobacco use diseases are higher in these poor states who have ample access more so because o f FREE health care than people who have to pay premiums for their health insurance. If you smoke, drink,live unhealthy you are still covered but if you do these things in the private sector your premiums are sky high. That is pure garbage about welfare recipients not being on drugs as much as other people. Only a handful of states drug test for be befits anyway. People laying on their fat butts are far unhealthier than people who get up and go to any job. All this free giveaway stuff is breeding laziness where you know you’ll be compensated enough to live without lifting a finger to do anything especially earn it. You are the one who has no idea what you are talking about and the majority of Americans beside the younger generation who know nothing about working and bringing home a check like yourself haven’t a clue. The democratic party which you belong no doubt has fostered this dependency on these poor Americans who have given them the illusion that they are being taken care of but in essence has put a yoke on their neck like cattle to vote for them every other November. You Josh (no name calling) ought to be ashamed of yourselves for feeding this whole generation of people your lies.
He’s pandering to the fears of the american public to enormous effect. He’s pointing out the things that everybody complains about and says “Well you know what I can do better. I dont know how to do better other than build a wall and kick them out. But WE CAN BE GREAT AGAIN”
To be great we need to stop the offshore accounting. We need to hold the coporations that are stripping this country of its wealth, its infrastructure, and its will and hope to live, we need to hold THOSE companies the business tycoon’s LIKE trump and the other 1% of the populace.
The Wal-mart company got 6billion in tax breaks. Theres trillions stored in over seas. We spent 1.3trillion dollars on a plane that wont fly BUT WE WONT EVEN TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN COUNTRY.
THAT. Is whats wrong with america. WAR PROFITEERING AND PROFITEERING ON OUR LABOR, OUR LIVES, AND OUR GOD GIVEN RIGHTS ON THIS EARTH WHILE NOT PAYING THEIR FAIR APPROPRIATION OF TAXES AND HOARDING THE WEALTH OF THE PEOPLE.
Regan-omics, the bush era tax cuts and the deregulation, and other bills like the NAFTA and TPP passed over the last 25 years ARE WHATS DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY. Immigration is what this country was founded on. To be great, to house the people of the world without prejudice and persecution!!!!
Damn,another idiot. Sanders is who I’d promising every lazy mo count free everything. Which rock did you crawl out from under. No doubt another one drawing some kind of check!
Mater Charitat- you’re 100% correct. Giving the Government another penny is a horrendous idea. For some strange reason Josh Strigle thinks- keep giving those suckers as much money as we can it’s gotta get better. Thoughts like that are as useful as an ashtray on a Harley. Look at the meme he put up of Sweden/Detroit. He fails to realize that Detroit is the poster child city for Liberal- Welfare-Taxation, belief system that he and Bernie advocate. Bottom line is, people like him want welfare, were raised on welfare, can’t cut the muster on their own so they have convinced themselves someone else needs to take care of them. Problem is— I DON’T WANT TO TAKE CARE OF JOSH! I just want to take care of me. Individual liberty is what America is predicated on. Anytime you give anybody welfare you degrade personal initiative. Not that Josh has any but other people do. Seems he enjoys, the school ground, swings, headphones ,talking about 13 year old girls and political mental masterbation. The guy is a total whack job. Probably strung out on prozak, ludes, ambien, weed who knows what else? I mean, what would his life be like if only he had gotten oxygen at birth? We’re all afraid he’ll have kids and home school them. What a train wreck! As far as Bernie, he’s like the uncle that comes over for thanksgiving dinner and you find him in the other room eating his own$#%&!@* Somebody keep an eye on Uncle Bernie- he’s eating his own$#%&!@* Josh ain’t gonna watch him he’s out on the playground swinging with his headphones on thinking about his date tonight with Ms. BLOWmeUpAndwecanpartytogether. I tell ya, it’s a total whack job. Only in America.