“I didn’t want to put [Netanyahu] under pressure”, Trump told Fox News this morning.
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Among Republicans, 43 percent have a positive view of Muslims, but 48 percent view them unfavorably. And that’s what mattered most to Republicans surveyed in a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
The Democratic presidential candidate said the Republican frontrunner is giving terrorists a “great propaganda tool, a way to recruit more folks from Europe and the United States”.
Trump, who has called for monitoring mosques and even barring Muslims from entering the United States, has been the clear beneficiary of this moment of deep anxiety.
As far as the candidate himself is concerned, fully 40 percent of Republicans say Trump is “telling it like it is”, and don’t have a problem with his language or manner. In short, he is seen as the most decisive candidate of either party – both by Republicans and by Americans at large.
Facing a backlash over his meeting with Trump, Netanyahu’s office on Wednesday issued a statement saying the prime minister “rejects” his remarks on Muslims, and that their planned encounter was simply in line with an established practice of meeting visiting U.S. presidential candidates.
The GOP’s early voting contests, which begin with the Iowa caucuses in less than eight weeks, tend to feature the party’s most passionate voters, who have been excited about Trump’s candidacy.
A Dubai real estate firm building a $6 billion golf complex with Trump removed his name from the property and image following his comments. They were also fairly closely divided on Republicans Rubio (30 percent favorable to 33 percent unfavorable) and Carson (32 percent favorable to 36 percent unfavorable).
And among Republican primary voters, it’s 38 percent support, 39 percent oppose.
Before commencing on the attacks on Trump Towers website, Anonymous also posted a customer video on YouTube warning against Trump’s plan to halt the immigration of Muslims into the U.S.
The latest Winthrop poll has Donald Trump holding on to his lead in SC, with 24 percent of likely Republican voters saying they’ll vote for him. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1 percentage points.
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Boxing icon Muhammad Ali, who converted to Islam in the 1960s, defended the religion this week, criticizing recent events that have “perverted people’s views on what Islam really is”.
