Quotes from AP interviews with Donald Trump supporters on his Muslim proposal
Donald Trump has released a letter from his physician declaring the Republican presidential candidate is in excellent health.
“It’s certainly the case that Trump’s supporters don’t necessarily look like “likely voters” as we know them”. ISIL is saying to a disenfranchised population ‘come join us.
And, they say, they marvel at how naïve all the critics sound.
In Iowa, Cruz is leading by 5 points in a recent survey of recent voters by Monmouth and by 10 points in a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register survey of registered voters who said they plan to caucus.
“No, they said it’s about time that somebody spoke up as to radicalism”, Trump responded. They feel the criticism that comes from those same politicians is rooted in the weakness Trump promises to sweep away. Ted Cruz surpassing the billionaire candidate. But Trump can afford to spend the money necessary to pay people to gather those signatures, if he wanted to go that route, and it’s certainly possible that Trump will run as an independent to spite the Republican Party after feeling mistreated during the primary process. It was America then. “But I believe it’s bad policy”.
“We are concerned about the feeling in the larger community about Muslims”, he said.
Trump said he would prevent Muslims from entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on”.
“Imagine that instead of banning Muslims, we banned blacks from any country”, said Vanderbilt University’s Suzanna Sherry, describing a hypothetical reaction to a period of intense racial unrest in the United States.
“I have many friends that are Muslims, and I will tell you, they are so happy that I did this because they know they have a problem”, Trump told CNN in an interview that aired Sunday on “State of the Union”.
As the week progressed, Trump began to fill in additional details. The real solution is not to live in such fear in America-retaliatory Islamist terrorist attacks will end at home if the US and allied governments quit needlessly poking the hornet’s nest in the Middle East, which citizens should pressure their governments to do.
“By the way, it’s not total and complete”. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Trump had become “unhinged”. He has exposed a cross-party political elite whose instinct is to try to crush him, rather than make its own positive case for the future. “You’re going to have people coming in and you are going to get people in”. – New Hampshire state Rep. Al Baldasaro.
“He’s always one step ahead of all the other politicians in pointing out a problem”. They don’t have constitutional rights.
“I believe it’s hurting this country”, Cuomo said. “Because our system is broken and what has happened in San Bernardino is an example of a tip of the iceberg”.
This isn’t the first time Clinton has used controversial statements by Trump to criticize the Republican Party.
In 2012, Republicans made up 32 percent of the electorate, according to exit polls.
“To outright ban people, because they belong to one particular religion?” Seventeen raised their hands when asked if they agreed.
Sadly, Trump just spread their message farther and far more convincingly than the Islamic State manipulators ever could.
“I felt like I’m being insulted”, said Edwards, the banker from Iowa.
Others saw it as a badge of honor. In New Hampshire, Sen. Another Cannon’s employee, 50-year-old Wayne Weathers, chimed in: “The drive-by media says everybody’s a racist who supports Trump”.
She also promised to shut down privately-run immigrant detention centers, focus deportations exclusively on violent criminals, expand asylum for refugees and introduce new English language-learning centers, increase outreach to the undocumented and grant more fee waivers to facilitate application for citizenship. They may not want to give him more attention, for one.
But his doctor says Trump has lost at least 15 pounds over the previous year and that his “physical strength and stamina are extraordinary”. “So they’re blowing this whole thing out of proportion”. He modestly condemned them, and I thought it was sort of inappropriate that he condemned them, but that’s OK.