Donald Trump to campaign in Sarasota on Saturday

But Donald Trump has, so far, set the terms of the primary debate and dragged other candidates in the direction of ethnic and religious exclusion.

The controversial remarks might be taking a toll on Trump, who has seen his support in Reuters/Ipsos opinion polling of Republican voters nationally take a sharp downturn in the past week. Carson really never caught on there the way he did for a while in Iowa and the only other person who seems able to seriously challenge Trump there is Romney. “Don’t hurt the person”. “Please nicely escort the person out”, Trump said, before instructing several young hecklers to move faster as security officials escorted them out of the arena.

The “Dump Trump! Sarasota Unites For Immigrants And Refugees” rally, was organized by ANSWER Coalition Suncoast and UNO: United Nations Organization.

Besides riffing on education, super PACs and his strong standing in many polls, Mr. Trump continued to criticize his political opponents, including Sen.

Trump didn’t mention the episode, in which one officer and two civilians were killed.

The crowd roared and chanted “Trump, Trump, Trump”.

Instead of apologizing for fabricating information about racial issues in the country, Trump simply said: “I retweeted somebody that was supposedly an expert and it was also a radio show”. The article was written by Serge Kovaleski, who has a disability and now writes for the New York Times. Trump said both the reporter and the newspaper were attempting to bring him down. Although the disgusting “impression” was caught on camera, Trump denied the incident, saying he didn’t even know what the journalist looked like while accusing him of “grandstanding” on disability. “They’re part of the Republican establishment, and the establishment is as crooked as the Democrats”, she said.

In that year’s tight race in Florida, 60,000 Muslim Americans voted for Mr Bush in that state – a significant enough bump that White House staffers used to say that Muslims had put President Bush in the White House, Suhail Khan, a Muslim staffer in the Bush administration, recalled. “Never”, he told the crowd.

Then, Trump was criticized for comments he made that he approved of surveillance for some American mosques and an interview where he appeared to favor requiring some sort of registration for Muslims. He cited what he called the news organization’s business woes.

“We are just totally against everything he stands for, his so-called values, which are hate and racism”, she said as she proudly introduced her biracial daughter.

Sarah Cochran, a Washington-based foreign policy specialist and Muslim Republican, said that while she personally did not take Mr Trump or Mr Carson very seriously, the reverberation of their comments had alarmed her. “I go to speak to church groups and I find people coming up to me and they say that what Trump says has been resonating with them”. And he broadened his criticism.

“By the way”, he said Saturday, “everybody admits that worldwide, Muslims were absolutely going wild” over 9/11.