Majority of veterans polled support re-election of Donald Trump: 'We want Trump back'
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Veterans 4 America First Institute's Darin Selnick responded to a recent Pew Research poll showing former President Trump garnering a majority of veteran support nationwide.
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"They saw the difference, and [veterans are] going to stick with Trump. They also saw in terms of the bigger picture of the country. They saw what happened in Afghanistan. They saw what Trump did, how he got rid of ISIS. They saw what he did on foreign policy, saw what he was doing, how it worked… They've seen with their own eyes," said Selnick.In the ill-fated Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021 under President Biden, 13 American service members died from a bombing at Abbey Gate on Aug. 26. During the dignified transfer of many of these service members, mostly Marines, President Biden was seen checking his watch.
Many of the Gold Star families affected by this tragic bombing support Trump in his re-election bid, including Darin Hoover and Kelly Barnett, who invited him to lay a wreath at their son Sgt. Taylor Hoover's grave site at Arlington National Cemetery a few months ago.Selnick encourages more veterans to show up to the polls next week and participate in the 2024 presidential election, saying, "Although veterans are not a large percentage of the population, they have family members; people who support veterans are a big percentage of the population. When you take those into account, you know their vote is going to be influenced by what their veteran family members and friends and those who just support veterans, the military in general think as well."However, Selnick also encourages Americans not to lose interest in veterans' opinions after the election, with Veterans Day just around the corner."With Veterans Day coming up, we recognize the debt we owe veterans every year on Nov. 11. And so it's important to understand what those who defend us think and what they believe and what their opinions are, but also their family members, their friends and those who support veterans as well," he said.
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