Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush called the prospect of a registry “abhorrent”. Marco Rubio of Florida was second, with 13 percent.
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Ted Cruz, another Republican presidential candidate, also rejected the proposal, saying he is “a big fan of Donald Trump’s, but not a fan of government registries”.
“‘I know because I wrote it, ‘ he said of the council’s reaction, adding that if Mr. Trump had evidence of cheering, he should present it”.
“I want surveillance of certain mosques, OK?” he said.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s super PAC plans a $2.5 million negative campaign against Trump, while other GOP establishment officials are plotting a “guerrilla campaign” backed by secret donors to “destroy” Trump, The Wall Street Journal reports. Asked whether there should be a database system for tracking Muslims in the USA, Trump said: “There should be a lot of systems, beyond databases”.
Just where? Churches, mosques, schools, shopping centers are a few of the examples the Republican presidential candidate is citing.
Trump did back away from comments he made on Tuesday that the United States was “going to have no choice” but to close mosques. Asked by Fox News for his comments, Trump said, “Maybe he should have been roughed up”.
“In Jersey City, within hours of two jetliners’ plowing into the World Trade Center, law enforcement authorities detained and questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river”, the article reads.
“If we have an enemy of state, I don’t want to give him anything”, Trump said.
Donald Trump is insisting he saw something on 9/11 that most Americans have apparently developed amnesia about.
Civil liberties experts said a database for Muslims would be unconstitutional.
But it was Trump’s suggestion to monitor Muslims through a special identification system that sparked outrage throughout the community, where he compared Syrian refugees to Islamic terrorists: “When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country we don’t know if they’re ISIS”. “What they’re doing to us, what [ISIS] did to [American hostage] James Foley when they chopped off his head – that’s a whole different level, and I would absolutely bring back interrogation and strong interrogation“.
Trump is also coming under fire for retweeting a few questionable crime statistics.
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The poll of 500 New Hampshire Republicans and independent voters who said they intend to vote in the Republican primary was taken last Tuesday through Thursday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
