Hillary Clinton has condemned Donald Trump, calling him shameful, unsafe and saying “I no longer think he’s funny”.
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“I have to say, Seth: I no longer think he’s amusing”, she said, to loud applause from the audience.
Eighteen per cent did not know or had no opinion, according to the survey by NBC News and the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
A poll from The New York Times and CBS, conducted largely before Trump’s incendiary comments, showed that he was gaining from heightened fears about terrorism following attacks in Paris and San Bernardino. More than 4 in 10 Republican primary voters say the quality most important to them in a candidate is strong leadership, which eclipses honesty, empathy, experience or electability. “But now he’s gone way over the line. I see that there’s no smoking and no drinking and their women wear dresses down to the floor”, Ali said at the time.
Trump returned the praise by saying: “Thank you to respected columnist Katie Hopkins of Daily Mail for her powerful writing on the UK’s Muslim problems…”
Those views within the party have helped Trump weather yet another political storm, as the poll found his favorability rating undiminished among Republican primary voters over the last six weeks.
On Tuesday, Trump said he was not ashamed of his proposal for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”.
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Billionaire-turned-politician Trump recently added to an already controversial US Presidential campaign by claiming that all Muslims should be barred from entering the US “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. His rival for the GOP nomination, Senator Lindsey Graham, told the Guardian that “Donald Trump today took xenophobia and religious bigotry to a new level”, while former vice-president Dick Cheney said in a radio interview that Trump’s plan “goes against everything we believe in”.
