GOP rivals slam Trump’s call for database to track Muslims

Mr Trump was also asked on ABC whether he would rule out a database on all Muslims in the US.

This marks Trump’s first campaign visit to the Buckeye state since declaring his candidacy.

Waterboarding – a method of torture in which water is poured over the face of an immobilised prisoner to simulate drowning – is “peanuts” compared with that, Trump says.

He tried in another interview to clarify that position, suggesting a watch list for the Syrian refugees admitted to the U.S.

“They can’t understand, you know, how come an outsider can be doing so well within the party”, Trump said.

“I think the American people want to see a new face”, Romney told the network in October. And the idea that we’re going to repel an entire group of people on the basis of their religion? He criticized NY Mayor Bill de Blasio’s support for ending a NY City Police Department surveillance program that placed plainclothes officers undercover in mosques and Muslim student groups. “We have to surveil the mosques”.

Arguably, a string of statements regarding the measures the USA should take combat Islamic State terrorists and track potential threats inside the country has helped Trump’s standing among Republican primary voters.

“I saw the film of it, yes”, he said. I want surveillance of these people that are coming in, the Trojan horse. He is definitely the candidate headed in the right direction with the right at this time.

“And experience does matter”, Kasich said, a reference to his two terms as governor of OH and 18 years as a member of the U.S. House. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has slotted the bill for possible Senate consideration, though it’s unclear whether the chamber could get enough votes to override a threatened veto by President Barack Obama.

In both polls, no other candidates top 3% – a crucial marker, since debate sponsor CNN has announced that a 3.5% national average (or a 4% average in Iowa or New Hampshire) is necessary to make the cut for the next GOP presidential debate on December 15. Change apparently trumps honesty.

Civil liberties experts said a database for Muslims would be unconstitutional. They tells us that that they could not turn up any news accounts of American Muslims cheering or celebrating in the wake of September 11. “You can use neutral criteria to identify terrorists”.

An extensive review by The Washington Post following Trump’s claims did not turn up any evidence of mass celebrations within the United States. “At a few point you have to ask yourself, is that the kind of country we are?”

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is retaining a solid lead, holding a 55 percent to 32 percent advantage over Sen. “He did not see it”, Brokaw said during an appearance Sunday morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” You’re talking about closing mosques. You’re talking about registering people.

He said Muslims would be signed up at “different places”, adding: “It’s all about management”.

At the same time, he called Trump’s call for tracking and targeting Muslims specifically as something that would be “setting a pretty unsafe precedent”.