Donald Trump: More British Muslims are joining Isil than the Armed Forces
Yet 8 in 10 Republican voters, and 55 percent of all Americans, called Trump very or somewhat decisive. “And we have them talking very positively because people are saying: ‘You know, Trump is right'”.
“I didn’t do this for polls so I don’t even care what the polls say”, Trump said in an appearance yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union With Jake Tapper”. “That does not belong in this country”, said Donnelly, 58, a campaign volunteer who stood with other supporters outside a Trump campaign event Thursday evening.
Trump’s support rises to 30 percent against the four top Republican candidates, NBC noted.
Donnelly, who lives in Concord, said she likes Trump because “he’s trustworthy, he’s honest and he’s humble; plus, nobody owns him”.
Speaking on CBS News’ “Face the Nation”, Senator Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, said Trump’s proposal was a “huge mistake” that threatens to alienate the same Muslims the USA will need to fight against Islamic State.
After rocketing to the front of the Republican pack in the race for president, Trump has stayed there for months with a brash approach that has captivated a healthy slice of the GOP electorate.
Trump’s statement was by far the most dramatic response of a USA presidential candidate to last week’s shooting spree in California by a married couple whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation later said had become Islamist militants some time ago.
Kerry said Trump’s call “does endanger national security, because it exhibits an attitude by one American who is running for the highest office of our land about a willingness to discriminate against a religion”. “Except the First Amendment isn’t a free-floating grant of rights to all of mankind”.
And in a New York Times/CBS poll taken mostly before the real-estate mogul’s comments, Trump garnered 35% support among Republican voters across the country. More than half of the focus group members said they would – enough that Luntz remarked, “the establishment Republicans just died”.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump made a proclamation that most presidential front-runners usually don’t have to directly spell out.
In the end, the Democrats will undoubtedly receive yet another presidential mandate from the American people, and legitimate moderate Republicans will once again be left wondering how their party could have been hijacked by such a small, radical portion of the American population. “I wasn’t excited when they were up – I’m not excited when they were down. They really know they have a problem”, he said. Trump answered. “But without the ban, you’re not going to make the point. I’ve never been a big believer in national polls”.
While Trump is considered the most decisive of the five GOP candidates tested in the poll, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who recently in a new poll of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa.
“They’re not distancing themselves [from me]”, Trump said of the Israeli government.