Military voters around the country prefer Donald Trump to Hillary Clinton by a 9-point margin, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
The survey of veterans and those who live with veterans found Trump won 47 percent of registered voters’ support to Clinton’s 38 percent.
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However, in a hypothetical match-up against Sen. Bernie Sanders, Trump led the Vermont senator by only 4 points.
Trump has made veteran outreach a centerpiece of his campaign, repeatedly slamming Clinton for her comments last year that problems at the scandal-plagued Department of Veterans Affairs are “not widespread.”
The real estate mogul’s favorability rating among veterans and their families was 50 percent in the Morning Consult survey, which is 15 points higher than his national favorability rating of 35 percent in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.
Clinton’s favorability rating among veterans hewed close to her national average. Thirty-nine percent of military voters viewed her favorably, while her RealClearPolitics favorability average sits at 36 percent.
“Almost two out [of] three voters in the survey have an unfavorable view of Hillary Clinton,” Morning Consult said of the poll.
In a separate poll of 2,001 registered voters, Morning Consult discovered a small majority of voters think the care veterans receive at the Department of Veterans Affairs is worse than treatment they could get in the private sector.
Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said they thought President Obama is not doing enough to deal with problems at the VA.
