But views are mixed among Republicans: 42 percent of GOP respondents support Trump’s proposal to ban Muslims from entering the USA, while 36 percent oppose it.
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The proposed ban even drew criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, forcing Trump to postpone his trip to the occupied lands.
“But I didn’t want to put him under pressure”, Mr Trump told Fox News on Thursday.
Among those to condemn Mr Trump was the boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who issued a statement calling for people to “stand up to those who use Islam to advance their own personal agenda”.
But the rhetoric of Trump the presidential candidate is offensive and vile.
Among the participants, support for Trump grew over the hour and a half they answered questions about Trump’s temperament and insults he’s lobbed at rivals and the media, mirroring the pattern of deepening support for him over the life of his candidacy.
He referenced his recent comments about Muslims by comparing them to when he announced his run for presidency and promised to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.
As part of his “Stop the Bullyionaire” campaign, the Miami resident on Wednesday released a video online emphasizing the contributions of the U.S. Latino community, which Trump has attacked during his presidential campaign, especially the roughly 11 million undocumented foreigners living here.
“I have to say, Seth, I no longer think he is amusing”, she said on the NBC program, referencing the Republican presidential front-runner’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States out of terrorism concerns.
On CNN, he claimed, “I’m doing good for the Muslims”.
The problem for Republican leaders who want to head off the possibility of Trump’s winning the party’s nomination is that his strongest supporters, who tend to be blue-collar Republicans and conservative independents, deeply mistrust the party’s establishment.
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Trump insisted on Thursday, however, such a move was “highly unlikely”. I’m leading in every poll… The CBS/New York Times survey, for example, found that about 4 in 10 voters said they were afraid of what Trump might do if elected, while another quarter expressed concern. Although he had said he would go ahead with the December 28 meeting, he stressed that it did not amount to an endorsement of Trump. “I just decided I wanted to wait”.
