Majority of Americans disagree with Donald Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims
“Donald Trump has been the most successful candidate in driving the dialogue and defining the stakes since Ronald Reagan in 1980”, he said.
She told “Late Night” host Seth Meyers “I no longer think he is amusing”, on Thursday evening’s show when asked about Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States. Fee, a Republican, said she supports Trump and agreed with his proposal to bar Muslims.
Donald Trump’s business empire has been targeted by hacking group “Anonymous” in the wake of his controversial comments about Muslims.
President Barack Obama has urged Americans not to respond by viewing all Muslims as a unsafe force, but Trump has called for a pause of Muslim immigration “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”.
In a recent CBS news poll, 58 percent of Americans said that they would oppose such a measure, while only 36 percent thought that it would be a good idea.
Fellow White House hopeful and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton meanwhile said of Trump: “I no longer think he is amusing”.
Sir Peter joined Prime Minister David Cameron, who called Mr Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims “divisive, unhelpful and quite simplywrong”, and Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, who said “the only reason I wouldn’t go to certain parts of NY is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump”.
Nonetheless, union executive board members who attended a closed-door meeting to cast their votes say they believe Trump is the man who will stand by law enforcement, focusing on his past support of police. The more Muslims feel sad, the more ISIS feels they can recruit them… “This woman came in on a marriage visa and she was totally radicalized, and she came in…We just can’t afford anymore to be so politically correct”, he said.
But Trump’s standing in opinion polls of Republican voters was unchanged in the data released yesterday, which covered responses from December 8-11.