The reason Donald Trump is not doing as well as previous Republican candidates with military voters, says political scientist Peter Feaver, is that Trump’s message might resonate more with World War II and Korea veterans, who are aging and passing on. In particular, he calls Trump’s relationship to the Vietnam cohort of veterans “fraught.”
Military Voters
This election is testing the Republican loyalties of military voters
The reason Donald Trump is not doing as well as previous Republican candidates with military voters, says political scientist Peter Feaver, is that Trump’s message might resonate more with World War II and Korea veterans, who are aging and passing on. In particular, he calls Trump’s relationship to the Vietnam cohort of veterans “fraught.”
FiveThirtyEight