Donald Trump on San Bernardino response: ‘I would be so tough’

“I’ll take care of it”.

“I will comment on that at a little bit later date but we have to start looking at families now”, Trump said.

The real estate mogul advocated for more profiling, referring to the one report that a neighbor of the shooters in San Bernardino feared telling anyone about suspicions packages arriving at the home of the shooters because she didn’t want to be racist. We have got a hidden enemy. Billionaire Trump has been leading in the polls largely based on support from blue-collar, less-religious workers who earn less money, and that base could prove to be his biggest asset. He’s gotten to that much-ballyhooed top spot through a form of Trumpian populism that has appealed to, and brought together, blue-collar voters who aren’t particularly engaged through social issues but feel the country is in a bad way, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

Trump did not respond to a shouted question about what he thought should happen to the sister of the alleged killer, whom he accused of knowing what was going on.

“You know, you say they don’t mind dying, I think they do mind dying”, Trump told CBS host John Dickerson in an interview that aired on Sunday.

Trump supporters at the Iowa rally agreed with the sentiment.

He told Dickerson the country has been too politically correct with Muslims in America.

“I think I could lose a state, sure”, Trump said of the first three states to vote in next year’s presidential primaries. He’s a successful businessman, for one.

“Our country is so deep in debt and he has the business experience”, said supporter Janice Thompson.

“Innocent civilians aren’t being targeted, they’re the ones who got killed”.

“Honest, funny, sarcastic”, said Jo Ellen Seibel of Davenport.

“I think things will settle down”. “They’re killing people. What we just saw in California or in Paris”. “That’s refreshing”, the Moline man said. But the interruptions weren’t out of praise: the protestors were angry.

Asked later if he thought singling out the families of suspected terrorists would create animosity, Trump said he was more concerned about saving lives. “So just remember that”, he said.

History suggests that’s unlikely, even if Trump does take the nomination.

While some left the gathering at Trump’s skyscraper in midtown Manhattan with hopes their message had resonated, Trump said afterward he had no plans to change his approach, which he said had taken him to “first position in every single poll”.

The White House said Obama will repeat his pledge to destroy the Islamic State, and that “the United States must draw upon our values – our unwavering commitment to justice, equality and freedom – to prevail over terrorist groups that use violence to advance a destructive ideology”.

Scott estimated that more than 100 preachers would nonetheless be meeting with Trump on Monday, despite criticism in an open letter in Ebony magazine from more than 100 black religious leaders.