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Military Voters Rate Trump Stronger Commander in Chief

Veterans are even more convinced these days that President Trump is a stronger military commander in chief than most of his recent predecessors in the White House.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 60% of Likely U.S. Voters who are now in the military or have served in the past see Trump as a stronger commander in chief than most recent presidents. That’s up from 53% in June of last year when we first asked this question. Thirty-four percent (34%) of these voters say he’s a weaker commander. Only five percent (5%) rate his performance as about the same as most of those who’ve recently been president. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on October 29-30, 2019 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.

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