GOP rhetoric on Muslims may not have to many consequences

While the Donald Trump campaign has been called a circus in the past, this Saturday might have been the only time an actual elephant was on the scene. “I don’t mind the hubbub”.

The billionaire reality TV star who has upended the Republican primary drew booming cheers and chants of “Trump!” Marco Rubio. “I’m leading in Florida against a sitting senator”, he told a crowd at Robarts Arena. Trust me, if the perpetrators were Muslims you would know their names.

Others were curious to learn more.

Nationally, a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted in the five days through November 27 showed Mr. Trump backed by 31 percent of Republicans, down from a peak of 43 percent on November 22. Cook proceeded to confirm that Trump is a registered Republican in NY.

Interestingly Trump continues to lie that “thousands” of Muslims Americans cheered in New Jersey on 9/11 but he doesn’t mention that some white right-wing Americans cheered the killing of these nine African Americans by Roof. To Dalia Mogahed, research director for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding and former executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, those are signs that “the public was being manipulated” by politicians with agendas.

Cruz is now running-and smartly, it must be said-what you might call the “Donnie Jr.” strategy. But the GOP rhetoric on Muslims isn’t much of a big disadvantage for Republicans, says ABC News. They have radicalized people to commit violent crimes in recent years, such as the six Sikhs gunned down at a temple in Wisconsin in 2012 to the three people murdered at a Jewish Community Center in Kansas in 2014 by white supremacists. “We’ve really moved the threshold of what is socially acceptable”. “I would never mock a person that has difficulties”.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has seen his poll numbers slip, too, and is now behind Trump at 15 percent. In recent years, there have been ads by anti-Muslim groups and well-organized campaigns against the building of mosques, along with pressure on state legislatures to ban Shariah law.

“I wish he’d be a little more sensitive – especially to people with disabilities”, Ms. Dickson said.

“He’s trying to be tough… you can’t act tough you just gotta be tough”, said Trump.

The threat posed by ISIS is real and must be forcefully addressed. They come from many different backgrounds and are widely dispersed, limiting their political influence, Green said. The candidates either did not respond or declined, council spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed said.

He criticized Rubio, Florida’s junior senator, as “weak” on illegal immigration and said his constituents should be angry with him because Rubio has missed so many Senate votes.

Trump also noted that Rubio missed classified briefings about the Paris terror attacks just after they happened, though the Florida Republican did attend an Intelligence Committee briefing he has access to as a member that his campaign said is better than the information that would have been in the other briefings.