Trump suddenly has real problems with 'rank-and-file military' support: GOP strategist

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September 4, 2020
By Travis Gettys

Republican strategist Rick Tyler believes President Donald Trump’s reported slurring of slain U.S. service members as “suckers” and “losers” will hurt him much more than his previous insults against individual combat veterans.

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But Tyler thinks the president’s broad denigration will cut into his already waning support among service members.

“Rank-and-file military normally support Republican candidates for president very strongly, [and they] are really going to have to reconcile what Trump has said here,” Tyler said. “The sad fact is, for debating whether this is all believable, [Atlantic editor-in-chief] Jeffrey Goldberg would not have gotten as far as he has gotten in the journalistic world if he made things up. I also know him personally, [and]] I don’t believe he made it up.”

“Second, it comports with who Donald Trump is and everything he’s actually said out loud, arguing with Gold Star families, saying in front of Gen. [John] Kelly, his chief of staff, whose son was killed in Iraq, in front of his grave saying, ‘I don’t know what’s in it for them,'” Tyler added. “He doesn’t understand the idea of honor, so I think when you start to look at the military and start to look at Donald Trump and how he feels about them, and the fact he would want to engage the military against its own civilians, his own citizens in the United States in these protests which he classifies as riots, the military is going to have a second look.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/trump-suddenly-has-real-problems-with-rank-and-file-military-support-gop-strategist/

[Botany]

1. Trump is gonna have problems with all those senior citizens in Florida who can't leave their homes..

.... because of the C-19 pandemic and now their social security is under attack too. Add in his insult
to all of America's vets and he is in for an ass kicking.

In a clean vote Trump should lose @ least 40 out of the 50 states.

TN, KY, AR, AK, OK, WV, and WY are his "firewall." Some of the very red southern states might go against
Trump now too. (If the African American votes is fairly counted)

Some of the great plain states might go against him because of his trade policies have hammered their farms
and C-19 has hurt their meat packing plants.

[AllaN01Bear]

2. these people died for this country with the ultimate sacrafice for freedom.

u ran away colonel bone spurs .

[kimbutgar]

3. I doubt his supporters will hear about this in right winger media and if they do

His cult members don’t care and that 40% support is unshakeable. Even if they were disabled or lost a family member to a war they will still follow their pied piper off the cliff in November.

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5. His cult is a lost cause, but what with him killing Stars & Stripes and now this, I think it

might be a real turning point with the military. If he loses them, he's pretty much lost it all.

[lagomorph777]

6. I hear that his defenders are out in the RW media defending him on this.

In other words, it has penetrated the bubble and they are on the defensive. Very bad news for Cadet Bone Spurs.

[Walleye]

4. He has said the military are suckers for supporting NATO

He has use the word suckers many times referring to the United States. How any patriot can support him I just don’t know