Trump puts off Israel trip ‘until I am president’

Cruz nodded toward his strategy to his supporters on Wednesday, telling them his approach has been to “bear hug” both Trump and fellow Republican candidate Ben Carson, and “smother them with love”. I don’t go down.

But when an array of Republican leaders criticised his Muslim remarks virtually en masse, Mr Trump warned he could launch a third-party campaign.

Twenty-nine percent of Republicans, who will pick the party’s nominee for the November 2016 election, said they found Trump’s remarks offensive against 64 percent who did not.

He also tweeted about the poll on Tuesday.

“The Establishment’s only hope: Trump & me in a cage match”, he said in a message on Twitter.

“He said stop letting them in temporarily until Homeland Security…can get a hold of what in the heck is going on and give us a little more protection”, said Ardith Forrest, 76, of Georgia. My whole life has been about winning.

Mr Trump has provoked global outrage by calling for Muslims to be blocked from entering the United States after last week’s deadly shootings in California by two Muslims who authorities said were radicalised.

“I have a lot of friends from Israel and a tremendous amount of support from the people of Israel”.

He added that what he is proposing is only one-tenth as bad as what former president Franklin Roosevelt did when he forced Japanese-Americans into internment camps. “And what he did was ten-times worse than anything I’m talking about”.

Peter Westmacott, the British ambassador to the United States, said in a response that “we are very proud of the Muslim community in the United Kingdom” and what extremist groups were doing did not have anything to do with Islam.

The firm, DAMAC Properties, initially said it would stand by Trump, even as another of the billionaire’s Middle East partners, the Lifestyle chain of department stores, halted sales of his “Trump Home” line of lamps, mirrors and jewellery boxes in protest. “Because there’s no way that a normal president could make the speech that he made the other night”.