It should be noted that the poll was mostly conducted before Trump announced his plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States, a plan that a majority of Americans disagree with, but has the overwhelming support of Republicans.
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On Tuesday, the White House said Trump’s plan to ban Muslims from entering the United States disqualifies him from being president.
“I have to say, Seth: I no longer think he’s amusing”, she said, to loud applause from the audience. Some British politicians have even called for an entry ban on Trump to the United Kingdom.
Among Republicans the views are mixed: 42 percent of Republican respondents back Trump’s Muslim ban, while 36 percent oppose it. Three-quarters of Democrats stand opposed.
While I’ve written before about how I support the use of the death penalty, there’s a few things wrong with what Trump said.
Republicans, many of which say they oppose “big government” and intrusions on their privacy, also overwhelmingly favoured registering Muslims already living in the U.S. in a government database, another of Mr Trump’s suggestions following the ISIS-inspired attacks in Paris last month that killed 130 people.
“I’m doing good for the Muslims”, Trump said.
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.
“Normally, if I did this for a campaign, I’d have destroyed the candidate by this point”, Luntz said after the session. There’s no need for this Trump executive order, as it’s already the law on the books in the states that actually have capital punishment.
The survey was carried out among a sample of 1,000 adults – 400 of whom responded by phone – between December 6-9, although the data released by NBC do not say how the other 600 people were interviewed.
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Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, said that Trump’s proposal is giving terrorist groups a recruiting tool to frame their fight as a broader religious war.
