Pew: Most military veterans support Donald Trump over Kamala Harris

| October 1, 2024

Pew Research Center found that military veterans consistently support Republicans by a wide margin over Democrats. For this recent survey, Pew listed both those who served on active duty as well as those who served in the reserve. More veterans have a favorable view of JD Vance than they do of Tim Walz.

From Pew Research Center:

Military veterans have long tended to affiliate with the Republican Party and support Republican candidates, and that remains the case today.

About six-in-ten registered voters who say they have served in the U.S. military or military reserves (61%) support former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, while 37% back Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted in early September.

Veterans’ vote preferences are on par with past elections. In 2020, 60% of veteran validated voters cast their ballot for Trump, while 39% backed President Joe Biden. And in 2016, veterans voted for Trump over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a similar margin (61% to 35%).

The vice presidential candidates on both tickets — Republican Sen. JD Vance and Democratic Gov. Tim Walz — have served in the armed forces. Vance was in the U.S. Marines and Walz was in the National Guard.

According to the Census Bureau, about 6% of American adults have served in the military, a substantially smaller share than a few decades ago. In 1980, about 18% of U.S. adults were veterans.

Additional Reading:

Copeland, J. (2024, September 30). Military veterans remain a Republican group, backing Trump over Harris by wide margin. Pew Research Center. Link.

Category: 2024 Election, Veterans in the news

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5JC

I like Vance far better than Trump and imagine most vets like him too. I can’t imagine any vet going along with CSM AWOL unless they are shit bag and that’s where she will shopping for votes anyway.

Fyrfighter

Well, he does fit your description, but the seagull will be voting for him and the Ho.. So sadly there are those to whom the oath they swore means nothing.

A Proud Infidel®™

“Major Moonbat” has no mind of his own, he only thinks what his hive tells him to.

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Anonymous

That is what it is…

white-dudes-harris
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USAFRetired

I spoke with my younger sister (US Army MSC) and in the last election she voted based on the vice President candidate, as she didn’t care for either Presidential candidate. I’m doing something similar this time, I like Vance’s choice in dog. His German Shepherd puppy gets my vote.

Fyrfighter

So she voted for the woman, because she’s a woman.. ( I’m assuming it wasn’t because kamala is a Ho..).. sadly, this is a perfect example of why the 19th amendment needs to be rethought..

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Hack Stone

Well, there are few trolls on a Marine Corps Facebook page who are backing the Harris-Walz ticket, but when you click on their Facebook profiles, not a lot of posts that would instill confidence that they are real people.

Slightly off topic, Hack doubts that we’ll get a New Fiscal Year Holiday Open Thread to drop, so he will take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and healthy fiscal year, and as long as you have a fresh pile of money, it is not too early to place your order for our Y3K software.

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Roh-Dog

I only buy my Y3K software out of the back of Aston Martins, shaken,….

Happy Renewal of Usurious Spending Day

USAFRetired

I was travelling Monday so I failed to wish you a Happy Fiscal New Years Eve.

Anonymous

Just in… Israeli ground forces move into Lebanon:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-launches-ground-invasion-lebanon-064213615.html

Hack Stone

Hack Stone pities the 2nd Lieutenant in Hezbollah Headquarters who was put in charge of coordinating the Change of Command Ceremony. Every twenty minutes he has to call Kinkos to change the names on the program, and get in touch with the baker before he puts the new commanders name on the cake. And to top it all off, when he sends out a group text to let the participants about the updated schedule, it starts all over again.

USMC Steve

We should have let them shoot the shit outta the place back in the early 1980’s instead of interfering.

5JC

With Iran sidelined and poopy pants unable to do anything about it till after the election the Israelis picked the perfect fortuitous to eliminate the thorn in their backside.

Fyrfighter

Seems BiBi is over their shit, and plans to ensure there’s not a repeat of Oct 7th..

Good on him!

5JC

Ah good. Iran announced with plenty of advance warning that they will shoot TBMs at the IDF. This gives the US and IDF plenty of time to get ready and shoot them down.

Most countries attack without warning and don’t play fair and even give the other side a chance to get ready.

Anonymous
5JC

Biden promises serious consequences. They will probably cut their allowance down by a billion or so. Meanwhile the UN was preparing a statement but their spokesperson on Israel was unavailable for comment.

https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-hamas-commander-killed-unwra-employee-israel-999ec22c1fef953f4f1b8b40a4c95b35

Forest Bondurant

The Argentinian Ambassador to the UN dressed the room down the other day over its treatment of Israel (among other accusations).

It was brilliant.

AW1Ed

Drops mic, leaves.

maga03
Anonymous

What it looked like on the ground in Israel:

Forest Bondurant

Israel should unleash a sustained bombing campaign on October 7th and send a message: FAFO.

Slow Joe

Dam. And Rosh Hashanah is tomorrow. I guess there will be no New Year celebrations for Israel.

Odie

There will be fireworks though.

HT3

Really? Vets favor a candidate that doesn’t want the country overrun by foreign invaders verse the candidate that opened the borders to over 400,000 known criminals?

No-shit-Sherlock
KoB

Yeah, I was looking around for my shocked face over this news too, HT3. And yet again…that shelf is a barren as my field.

jeff LPH 3 63-66

Where is Baisille Rathbone and Tom Conway when we need them

Anonymous

Violent, selfish “migrants” (illegal aliens) stealing and raping?
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USMC Steve

What I find totally fucked is that the number of libtarded veterans is that high. Apparently some of them didn’t pay much attention to reality. There is no justification for supporting the socialist democrats with what they have become.

Anonymous

They’re the f*cktards who’re either the 10% who never got the word or the 20% who gave you 80% of your problems until they got chaptered or QMP-ed. Then, after they avoided or never wanted leadership responsibility in the service, strut about being “managers” from that military experience as civilians don’t know from jack sh*t today.

Hack Stone

Meanwhile in the Western Carolinas, survivors of the storm can take solace in knowing that when FEMA does eventually show up, it will be made up of diverse group of marginalized people. Look how FEMA was able to restore the communities of Maui and East Palestine.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admins-fema-equity-plan-backlash-historic-hurricane-damage-embarrassment

Anonymous
A Proud Infidel®️™️

Not just that, Kamala has hinted that the relief should be distributed according to ethnicity!

Blaster

The good thing for FEMA is that by the time they actually get there, everything will be taken care of.

Anonymous

They be butthurt and have people arrested for that.

SFC D

I did a little online research into the “Veterans for Harris-Walz” organization after seeing their signs. I’d love to see the DD 214 of anyone involved with them. Appears to be the usual progressive platitudes, all bluster and no solutions. Vets for Harris seems to be mostly centered with this group: https://commondefense.us/

5JC

Most curious about this “Special Forces Medic”. Here is his milk carton shot.

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David

There are ‘grassroots’ groups where folks get together from common interest, and more recently bought-and-paid-for ‘Astroturf’ groups created by folks like Bloomberg. Think “Everytown Against” etc.

Anonymous

Not to mention…
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Anonymous

P.S. C’mon, Lars, don’t leave me hangin’…

Roh-Dog

Yeah! Don’t, turd!

SFC D

I can’t find a single thing locally, yet the signs magically appeared. C’mon out, ya pansies!

Hack Stone

And don’t forget this association of Police Chiefs who have endorsed Kamala Harris for President. They have a long distinguished history going all the way back to June 2024.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/national-law-enforcement-group-endorses-kamala-harris-for-president-fop-endorses-trump/ar-AA1r4Kpr?ocid=BingNewsSerp

5JC

They represent “dozens of police officials” lol. It really sends a message when the FOP will endorse a convicted felon over you. The FOP has hundreds of thousands of members but the new kid with a dozen is the headline. USA Yesterday is a joke.

I know literally hundreds of police officers and while I haven’t asked all of them I don’t know of any Harris supporters. Like not a single one.

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Hack Stone

Last week on Gutfeld, he had a photo of the founder of the organization that endorsed Kamala Harris. He described the Police Chief (of a college) who heads the organization as resembling Randi Weigarten’s brother. The description is accurate.

OAM

Veterans lean Right? Whodathunkit.

You mean to say that those who swore an oath and signed the dotted line on that blank check for the Constitution support the Rights and Protections of the Constitution?

In other breaking news, water is wet.

Side note – I heard a … weird take on the Vance v Walz upcoming debate. According to a couple talking heads on Fox (radio, in my car so I didn’t “see” which ones), Vance comes off as unlikable. He’s too cerebral or something. But Walz is folksy and talks in a charmingly homespun kind of way. So, according to them – and I didn’t hear any pushback from the others on that broadcast – Vance will alienate voters because he will come off as an educated intellectual elitist in comparison. If Vance is not careful, he may even come off as a bully if he presses Timmy too much on Timmy’s struggles with truthiness, his record, or his hoped-for boss’s (read, handlers) agenda.

It staggers me. The guy who grew up dirt poor achieved more than his Appalachian kin could ever dream is the elitist? Oh, that’s right, he is an avowed family man and believes in Conservative ideals. Yep, he’s going to appear offensive to the average voter … because the “average” voter is uneducated and struggles with words more than two syllables in length.

And this was on a supposedly conservative network. This reminder of how little the true elitists think of the “average” American voter staggers me. I want Trump/Vance to win in a landslide and to have the narrative be, once again, how out of touch the “elitists” are with the vast majority of “average” Americans.

HT3

Vance doesn’t come off as “elitist” to me. He’s a poor boy that made good. Walz comes off as the creepy uncle that’s a “confirmed bachelor” if you know what I mean. I also notice the Leftists that go to Yale are great people, but if a Republican goes to Yale it’s not a good thing?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=confirmed%20bachelor

5JC

Walz talks in a “folksy way” like Biden, which is to say he lies about his past when convenient for him. At least that is what the media called it back when they were pretending he didn’t have dementia.

Jimbojszz

It’s hard to remember what lies you have told. That is why Walz and Harris appear to be flip flopping all the time. Folksy talk is just a nice way to say someone is full of shit. Dementia Joe has always been to stupid to remember his lies. The media has called Joes off the promoter moments gaffes for years. MSM has been covering for Joe since he’s been a politician. Now Walz /spineless-csm tells each crowd what they want to hear and the media covers for him. Walz is said to be a great debater/speaker. Will have to see if that holds up when the fact checking is done. Walz likes to run from confrontation, as he has shown by deserting his fellow soldiers when he was needed. No balls Walz and the Ho, what a fucking team. Harris is just a liar straight up. Nothing to say there.

SFC D

Harris isn’t even a convincing liar. She didn’t learn much from Clinton and Obama.

Anonymous

Her answer here wasn’t the most inspiring:
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/1840790176576004483

President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH Neande

Faux? Conservative? Whatever gave you that idea?
Just because Faux isn’t as rabidly blue left as Communist News Network, doesn’t mean that they’re conservative. Far from it.

Fox News leanings are being decided in court. Murdoch is trying to change his will and get his networks in the hands of his right leaning son. The other children are lefty’s and contesting this change in court. It’s a wait and see game for now. Will Murdock live long enough to get this done?

SFC D

To me, No-balls Walz comes across as a oily little weasel hiding behind a facade of small-town Minnesota charm, fooling some of the people all of the time. He’s Eddy Haskell personified, but not quite as smart. Vance, on the other hand, is exactly what he appears to be. Never claims to be more, what you see is what you get. Sharp mind and intellect, damn near impossible to catch him off guard. It’s gonna be a fun debate.

Forest Bondurant

Walz’s compulsive need to lie to improve his public image points to an underlying personality deficit. He’s taught himself how to channel Joe Biden – another moronic loser.

Anonymous

He’s just another left/liberal educator who hates only that you stopped a bully from hurting you.

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5JC

Better have your mail in ballot turned in. If the polls don’t swing back towards Madam H, we might be on H1N5 lockdown.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/3170718/human-human-spread-bird-flu-missouri-what-to-know/

Prior Service (Ret)

I didn’t realize Stanley McCrystal, that whiny Clinton-era general, and the myriad of chapter cases constitute 37 percent of veterans but there it is.

Anonymous

Act like a goober with Rolling Stone having unfettered access:

Slow Joe

Who is in that 39% of veterans that voted for Biden in 2020?
I find that very difficult to believe.
My impression, based on observations without scientific data to back it up, is that no more than 20 percent support leftist policies.

KoB

That would be General Dominion’s Minions who “voted” for sniffy creepy.

Slow Joe

My unit is forcing me to get the flu shot.
Since Covid, I have lost complete faith in vaccinations.
Should I refuse?
Should I make this the hill with my name on it?

SFC D

I wouldn’t worry too much about the plain ol’ flu shot. That OTHER flu shot however…

AW1Ed

I had the worst case of annual poultry allergy. Happened whenever the corpsmen showed up with the vax injector, just the strangest thing.

Anonymous

Plus:
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A Proud Infidel®™

TRUE FACT: JD Vance has FAR MORE deployment time in the Middle east than “No-balls Tampon Tim” Walz does!!!

SFC D

So did Toby Keith, Robin Williams, a bunch of Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, even Al Franken.

Anonymous

Even before the tit-grabbing…
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5JC

He is smoking his ass like a cheap cigar.

Also please tell us about this American Airliner that was shot down during the Trump presidency? Of things that never happened that is high on the list.

Odie

Why is walz writing notes while Vance is talking, and Vance is rebutting without notes. Or is walz reading his talking points

Odie

The affordable care act prices are higher because the system works. Tim Walz

5JC

He is pretending to write so that he looks busy instead of acting nervous. It’s an old trick.

Eggs

Maybe this?

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Roh-Dog

It’s hard to believe Tampon Tim was in charge of any formation larger than his own footprint.

I do give him a +1 for being a fellow drunk driving enthusiast!

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Odie

Says page doesn’t exist.

Skippy

It’s to open source intels page showing a booster smashing someone in the West Bank

5JC

Yep, 200 ballistic missiles and the first confirmed kill was a Palestinian. Way to go Iran!

Odie

And Israel will be blamed for selling faulty guided missle components.

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Skippy

Here is a screen shot

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Anonymous

YouTube– not same, but live video of attack:

Anonymous

Plus discussion of Israel’s air defense:

Odie

Thank you Skippy and anonymous.

Anonymous

Missile wreckage (NoDong or Shahab-3) in southern Israel: