Following a few hours since approval of impeachment, it was circulated that support among military personnel for President of the United States Donald Trump has been seen at its lowest since he became president, according to a new poll conducted by Military Times.
According to the Survey, conducted between the end of October to the start of December, nearly 42 percent of respondents said they had a positive opinion of Trump.
This comprised of 17.3 percent of respondents who had a "favorable" view and 24.3 percent who had a "very favorable" view of the president.
In other words, just under 50 percent of respondents had a negative view, including 45.1 percent whose opinion of him was "very unfavorable."
These totals contrast Trump's ratings just after his election in November 2016, when 46 percent of troops had a positive view of Trump and only 37 percent had a negative view.
The last meeting between the president and the American troops was on November 28, 2019 when Trump spoke to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.
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Peter Feaver, ex-White House adviser to former president George W. Bush, said that those surveyed in the latest poll were a more career-minded part of the military. Trump is also much more popular with enlisted service members than with officers, the publication noted.
"These are people for whom the morals and standards of the military mean a lot," Peter Feaver, ex-White House adviser to former president George W. Bush said.
However, Trump, no matter what the Senate does -- and the likelihood is they will vote to not remove the President sometime early next year -- will have this impeachment on his permanent record and legacy.
The President's reputation now depends on three juries, in the Senate, among 2020 voters and generations of Americans not yet born. He has control over the first, untested influence over the second and almost no ability to shape the third.
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