Trump backs surveillance of mosques despite criticism of rhetoric

Senator Lindsey Graham of SC, who ran against Trump for the Republican nomination and has been a fierce critic since, said that he was “unnerved” by Trump’s response. “We’ve admitted four times more immigrants than any other country in the world”, Mr Trump said.

Democrat Hillary Clinton has opened up a double-digit lead nationally over Republican Donald Trump, whose negatives remain unusually high for a presidential candidate amid early indications that the Orlando terrorist attack has had little direct impact on the 2016 race.

“It’s at the heart of the FBI’s effectiveness to have good relationships with these folks”, Comey said at a press conference following the Orlando shootings. To generalize as Trump does about “the Muslims” is to set the nation down a risky road it has trod, to its eventual regret, in the past: banning Chinese immigrants a century ago, rounding up USA citizens and non-citizens of Japanese descent in the 1940s, expelling Mexicans a decade later.

Despite Donald Trump’s claim this week that the Muslim community has failed to report terror threats, USA officials said Muslims have relayed critical tips to investigators time and time again.

That sounds like an impressive lead until you consider that recent GOP presidential candidates have won close to 8 in 10 white evangelical voters, and that Trump’s sky-high negative ratings and vulnerabilities as a volatile, first-time candidate mean he will likely need strong turnout from that base to win.

In his speech on Tuesday, President Obama mocked Trump for emphasizing the use of this term as such a vital aspect of fighting terrorism.

In both a statement issued in reply to Obama’s speech, and at his fiery rally hours later in North Carolina, Trump again suggested the president’s loyalties are misplaced.

But Sanders went on to say that defeating Trump can not be the only goal, and, “We must continue our grassroots effort”.

In his place: the raw, vintage Trump that stormed to victory in those elections to claim his place as the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Clinton and Trump planned to address the shooting further in back-to-back speeches Monday.

Trump’s hard-line proposals on immigration have contributed to his popularity among some conservative voters.

“I do not think a Muslim ban is in our country’s interests”, said Ryan, who a year ago criticised Trump’s original proposal for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States. Officials do give extra scrutiny to people entering from countries such Syria and Iran.

“A ban on Muslims would not have stopped this attack”.

Yet even more striking is Trump’s standing with people who are black and Latino – growing voting blocks whose support is crucial to cobbling together a winning coalition. “It was productive, it was good, it was vintage Bernie, ” Tester said.

She said if elected in the November general elections her top priority would be to identify and stop attacks by lone wolves, like the one on Orlando over the weekend resulting in deaths of 49 people.

“There are a lot of people that think maybe he doesn’t want to get it”, Trump said on NBC’s “Today” show.

Other Canadian companies like Bombardier aren’t known for having a sense of humour and and should probably shy away from advertising with a political flavour because it could be seen as opportunistic, Packard said.

President Obama sharply rebuked critics who say he should condemn terrorists as “radical Islamists”, saying calling the Islamic State by another name will do nothing to defeat it – and could be counterproductive. Critics have accused him of anti-Muslim fear-mongering to win votes.