Donald Trump supporters shrug off fuss over Muslim travel ban

Donald Trump Tuesday defended his call to ban Muslims, deporting illegal immigrants and building a wall on the USA border with Mexico, arguing that these policies would not isolate the nation but make it more secure.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to the crowd at a town hall meeting December 12, 2015 in Aiken, South Carolina.

True, Sen. Ted Cruz leads the polls in Iowa, but Trump is right there on his heels. “Leadership is not about attacking people and disparaging people”.

Mainstream media outlets – and I’m looking at you, CNN – treat Trump’s every move and statement as “breaking news”.

There’s another layer to this that’s important to note: This doesn’t tell us anything about who will win next year because we still don’t know who’s going to win the primaries.

“I think that would raise interesting and novel questions for the court”.

A petition to ban Trump from the United Kingdom had gathered more than 530,000 signatures by Friday and the British ambassador to the US broke with diplomatic protocol to join the chorus speaking out against him.

“When you’re in war, you have to take steps that are not American to protect yourself and defend the country”, said Margaret Shontz, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, as she arrived at a Trump campaign stop in Des Moines on Friday. However, now that he has been given the platform to spew such psychobabble, others are coming out from the woodwork to say they support his bold statements and (essentially) his bigotry.

We reached out to Trump’s campaign but our emails and calls were not returned. And everybody’s outraged. And then all of a sudden they start analyzing what he said and realize, ‘Oh my god, he’s right, ‘ ” he said.

“In 2012, Republicans made up 32 percent of the electorate, according to exit polls. Nobody cares. And, frankly, I’m the most solid person up here”.

Only 41 percent of registered voters said Trump is saying the “things that need to be said”, while 47 percent said he is “making things worse”. The billionaire real estate developer and television personality’s call, which followed last week’s massacre in California by a married couple inspired by Islamic State militants, has been harshly criticized by world leaders and members of his own political party.

“Look, if I let you borrow my shoes from my house, when you bring them back, I’m not going to bring them back in until I reassess and see what I’ve got”, she said.

“If you’re black, you can’t come into the country?”

The latest government estimates say that 750 British citizens have gone to Syria to fight, while in 2014 there were 650 Muslims serving across the Armed Forces, primarily in the Army. “There is some fear among Muslims on two fronts”, said Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, the Muslim chaplain at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just outside Boston.