A majority of Americans oppose Donald Trump’s controversial plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States, but one in four supports it, according to the first major national poll since the furor erupted.
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Republican voters don’t think Donald Trump is likable.
“What you’re hearing from Trump and other Republicans is absolutely, unequivocally wrong”.
Almost 60% of people polled said they viewed Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, in a negative light, and 27% said they saw him in a positive one, which was about the same as in October.
But the rhetoric of Trump the presidential candidate is offensive and vile.
Last week, an advertisement was released about a meeting taking place between Trump and black Christian preachers Bishop Clarence McClendon of the Full Harvest International Church in Los Angeles, Bishop Hezekiah Walker of the Love Fellowship Tabernacle megachurch in NY and Darrell Scott from the New Spirit Revival Center in Ohio.
Just 6 percent of likely Republican primary voters said they would be dissatisfied with Christie as their nominee, compared with 23 percent who picked Trump ad 18 percent who named Bush. “And then I come out on the street and you tell me I shouldn’t go in there”. The early voting contests tend to feature the GOP’s most passionate voters, a small but vocal group that has been excited about Trump’s candidacy.
Trump’s campaign events have a bit of a circus atmosphere and these days, it includes a circus of protest.
“It’s the things he says and how he says them”, said Bill Rogers, 43, of Xenia, Ohio, who supports John R. Kasich, the state’s Republican governor.
Before he arrived at an event in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Thursday night, at least 200 demonstrators, backed by a brass band, gathered with signs that read, “We welcome refugees”, and “No hate, no fear and no Trump”.
But the AP-GfK poll also offers cause for long-term concern for such Trump loyalists. “And Marco Rubio said after the Paris attacks not only should we be considering interment, but he actually suggested that maybe we should close down cafes and diners where Muslims gather, and in fact, compared them to the Nazi Party”. It is an argument that many people, including politicians, have pointed to, as well.
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“We as Muslims have to stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda”, Ali, 72, said in a statement that appeared in a report by NBC News headlined: “Presidential Candidates Proposing to Ban Muslim Immigration to the United States”, but did not actually name Trump.
