And it’s a question of basic judgment, her main supportive super PAC Priorities USA Action has been insisting, sending around emails tracking which other Republican candidates have said they would support the eventual Republican nominee – even if it’s Trump: “Will any Republican have the guts to say otherwise?” He has endorsed Netanyahu’s re-election bids, described him as a “terrific guy”, and expressed regret that he can’t be president of the United States.
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Patricia Tollenger, a Republican from Bedford, New Hampshire, said the Boston Marathon bombing by radicalized brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev – who came to the United States as children with their parents – was proof enough that some holes in the US immigration and visa system needed to be plugged.
“I think Donald Trump is clearly out of his mind if he thinks that’s a sensible way to proceed”, he said.
According to the survey, Republicans are divided on Trump’s proposal with 42 per cent supporting his idea, 36 per cent opposing it and 22 per cent undecided.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stripped Mr Trump of his membership of the GlobalScot business network, saying that he was no longer fit to act as a business ambassador for Scotland. There seem to be this love hate relationship with the American media.
“He’s not a politician, he’s just a man”, says Mary Faulk, who attended a Trump rally at the fairgrounds of her home town of Manassas, Virginia.
“The UK politicians should be thanking me instead of pandering to political correctness”, he said.
“Trump is making it easy for Democrats to say if you support enforcing immigration you’re doing it because of racism and xenophobia”, said Hurl.
His fellow Republican candidates were among those to condemn that plan, but senior party figures have refused to throw Trump under the bus, or even rule out voting for him.
The Metropolitan Police issued a statement flatly contradicting Trump’s remarks, noting: “We would not normally dignify such comments with a response, however, on this occasion we think it’s important to state to Londoners that Mr Trump could not be more wrong”. Baroody said he still might vote for Trump but is also looking at Sen.
“It could go quickly, but it’s a subject that has to be discussed”, he said, adding that there would be exceptions for Muslim athletes and diplomats.
“The ordinary Joe on the street who is scared and doesn’t know what is going on will say ‘why the hell are we letting these people into the country?… A racist like this has no place here among us”, Frej told the station. “And we don’t like people who don’t look like us”. Some polls have found that Mr Trump’s fans, while devoted, may be less likely to actually show up at the polling stations on election day.
The party – which hopes to end eight years of Democratic White House rule – faces a stark choice between turning on their presidential frontrunner and tethering a 161-year-old brand to the whims of a billionaire many Americans see as a bigot.
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This, at least, is what establishment Republicans likely are telling themselves right now to help them sleep at night.
