Trump responded with abstraction, saying “I would be very very firm with families”.
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The billionaire celebrity did not directly note his proposal to block Muslims from coming into the United States – temporarily, and with exceptions – that has taken a central role in the race. “Jeb doesn’t believe I’m unhinged. I introduced legislation in the Senate that I believe is more narrowly focused at the actual threat, which is radical Islamic terrorism and what my legislation would do is suspend all refugees for three years from countries where ISIS or al Qaeda controls substantial territory”, Cruz said.
The 2016 presidential hopeful added that it was at this point that religion became an “integral” part of his life, instead of just an important part of his life, saying that before he was “observant I guess, I don’t know, but it wasn’t a deep relationship”. When pressed, Cruz called Trump’s proposal too broad, pointing out that millions of “peaceful Muslims” all over the world, in nations such as India, would be unfairly penalized. I will build a wall.
Bush was then asked about his previous comments calling Trump “unhinged” on Twitter.
But Bush continued: “Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is destroy ISIS…”
Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and US Senator Ted Cruz hold their hands over their hearts during the national anthem at the CNN Republican presidential debate. “But he’s a chaos candidate and he’d be a chaos presidency”. In back-to-back foreign policy speeches this week, Clinton and Bush outlined blueprints for defeating the Islamic State, the extremist group blamed for last weeks attacks in Paris that killed 129 and left hundreds more wounded. It’s not a serious proposal to say to the people you’re asking for their support that they can’t even come to the country to engage in a dialogue with us.
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“This is not a serious proposal”, Bush said in response to a question about Trump’s now infamous declaration that all Muslims should be banned from the United States.
