“I’m not concerned about lasting damage to the party“. Above he speaks to the crowd at a rally, December 7, 2015, in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
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Trump, who on Monday called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”, told MSNBC that some parts of London “are so radicalized that the police are afraid for their own lives”.
Last month-in the wake of the Paris attacks-Republicans united in opposition to America accepting Syrian refugees. “As we have said so many times, to do otherwise signals to the terrorists that they are winning the battle against democracy and freedom”.
“I think what I would say is those comments don’t mean that much if they’re going to go ahead and vote for him”, Earnest said of Republican comments.
Earnest cited the election of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who a reporter said once joked he was like white supremacist David Duke “without the baggage”, and a leaked Republican Senate campaign memo instructing candidates how to ride voters’ support for Trump. Muslims in the United States and around the world denounced it as unconstitutional or offensive.
“Mr. Trump, by lumping all Muslims in the crosshairs of the terrorism crisis, only hurts the legitimate campaign against Islamist fundamentalism and demeans law-abiding American citizens”, according to a joint statement from Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the center, and Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean.
Donald Trump, thanks for the temerity. “The opener is the outrageous, the most outrageous demand you can make”. Lindsey Graham urged his party to tell Trump to “go to hell”.
But Trump is just skating to where the puck was going. For that, we should look to the two leading, non-Trump candidates in the race: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.
While Hillary Clinton called on Silicon Valley’s disrupters over the weekend to thwart efforts from militant and extremist groups like ISIS, Trump has a completely different idea.
But the Texas senator added, “Certainly in the media there has been no shortage of criticism for Donald Trump and I do not believe the world needs my voice added to that chorus of critics”.
“You can’t condemn Trump when you want to impose a religious test on women and children fleeing death and persecution”, Reid said of Trump’s rivals. For his supporters, Trump’s comments further prove why they like him.
The White House spokesman on Tuesday also called Trump a “carnival barker”.
Doug Heye, a veteran GOP strategist and former adviser to the Iowa Republican Party, said Trump’s latest proposal would do more damage than some of his previous controversial comments. Trump is just saying out loud what other Republicans merely suggest.
“It’s important not to treat Trump as some radical aberration”, The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald wrote on Tuesday.
“I’m not concerned about lasting damage to the party, I’m concerned about standing up for our country’s principles”, Ryan said.
“I’m going to support whoever the Republican nominee is and I’m going to stand up for what I believe in as I do that”, Ryan said. “This is not conservatism. More importantly, it’s not what this country stands for”.
Again, there’s no telling what, if anything, will eventually doom Trump’s candidacy.
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Moore did not answer a follow-up question about whether he thinks Trump’s comments are disqualifying and whether he would back him if he wins the nomination.
