Carson and Trump have until March to launch third-party runs

Still, in a sign of how Trump’s rhetoric has polarized the electorate, 72 percent of Democrats and 47 percent of voters overall said they were offended by Trump’s comments.

Support for Donald Trump’s 2016 Republican presidential campaign remains strong in New Hampshire despite criticism the businessman received this week after calling for a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering US, a new poll has found.

Texas has the earliest deadline – May 9 – to file as an independent candidate for president.

Let this week of polling be another confirmation: Every time Donald Trump says something so outrageous that people are widely shocked and horrified – that’s when he’ll be going further up in the polls again.

“Trump is the only one who would come out and say something like this”. One of many Post reporters who broke the story, Robert Costa, appeared on the show as well on Sat.to element his report.

In either case, Trump’s call for the Muslim ban has already changed the race from whatever it was before, as we shall soon see.

But so far his proposal does not seem to have affected his standing in the polls.

Republican House and Senate leaders have expressed concerns that a Trump candidacy could lead them to lose majorities in both houses next November.

The retired neurosurgeon had led polls of Republican voters, but support has slumped in recent weeks as Carson has struggled to offer details of his foreign policy vision.

In Britain, a petition demanding that Trump be banned from visiting the United Kingdom had gained more than 450,000 signatures on Thursday and was still growing.

“I really think he needs somebody to calm him down, you know”. Then delegates could be given up to support a consensus nominee.

A Dubai real estate firm building a $6 billion golf complex with Trump, who has extensive business dealings in the Middle East, stripped the property of his name and image amid the uproar over the comments.

“There’s clearly a large segment of the Republican electoral base that responds very positively to the things Trump has been saying”, Abramowitz said. A DAMAC spokesman declined to comment on why Trump’s image was removed from a billboard outside the project site.

“In India, we have equal rights for everyone and we don’t look toward communities with suspicion”, he told a Washington news conference when asked about Trump.

“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.