Trump’s lead among Republicans undiminished in first poll since Muslim comments

Clinton launched her attack on the billionaire Republican frontrunner during an appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday, sparking loud applause from the audience. “I know why you’re not going to support me: you’re not going to support me because I don’t want your money”, Trump said.

“I think for weeks, you and everybody else were just bringing folks to hysterical laughter and all of that”, Clinton told Meyers. And what he’s saying now is not only shameful and wrong.

Though it wasn’t his message of the day, Trump spoke briefly about his proposal to ban Muslims, saying that racial profiling is necessary to stop domestic terror attacks like the shooting in San Bernardino, California. Just above half of Republican primary voters (51%) gave Trump a thumbs up, and 26% did not, which was also almost the same as in the previous poll.

Riding stronger than ever before in the Republican polls, Trump’s event in New Hampshire Thursday was perfectly conventional: He was receiving the endorsement of a police union inside a smaller-than-usual hotel conference room.

In addition to discussing Trump, Clinton also expressed a desire to reach out to “reasonable gun owners” in an effort to get past the National Rifle Association’s position and change the United States’ gun laws so that, among other things, people on the no-fly list can not purchase guns. “Those who are radicalised, it’s a different issue; we tackle them separately”. In short, he is seen as the most decisive candidate of either party both by Republicans and by Americans at large.

Earlier on Friday, the website for Trump Tower, the 68-story building that the Republican presidential nominee owns, went down, according to various media sources. A fair reading of the exchange with Trump showed his comments to be more about immigration, which is … a redundancy, since the government has records (a database) of all people entering the United States legally anyway. Lindsey Graham today said of Trump, “I’d rather lose without him than try to win with him, if he keeps doing what he’s doing”. Twenty-two percent of Democratic voters are excited and 54 percent are optimistic, while only 23 percent said they were concerned or scared.

“But, my deal would be they treat me fairly and I’m going to treat them fairly”.

Trump increasingly has used such a licensing model in recent years, lending out his name to others around the world rather than developing big real estate projects himself.