This will hurt the democrats. Everyone has friends and relatives in the service. Plus this brings up painful memories of the 60's when he and his liberal pals in the democrat party badmouthed the military.
Everyone has friends and relatives in the service You'd be surprised. The military is now so small, relative to the population, that is no longer true, not like it once was. It's particularly not true in Democrat strongholds, be they the Limousine Liberals or the eastern inner city strongholds.