It’s a stark contrast with the 75% of Democrats and 55% of independents who oppose Trump’s call to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
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“The situation in Israel is particularly volatile, and so I think in this case his decision to reconsider that trip is a good outcome for all those involved”, Earnest told reporters. A month ago, only 4 percent of Americans said terrorism was the most important problem; now, 19 percent say it is, above any other issue.
Another anti-Muslim Trump proposal got more mixed results.
Trump announced the decision in a post on his Twitter feed and said he would plan to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “at a later date after I become president of the U.S”.
The survey of 1,000 USA adults, 400 of whom were reached by cell phone, was taken December 6-9 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. While Trump is considered the most decisive of the five GOP candidates tested in the poll, Texas Sen.
Donald Trump not only continues to lead but is making gains in the polls after his controversial comments about Muslims this week.
However, Trump’s comments appear to have some support from Republican voters. The Democratic candidate slammed her Republican opponent in a new interview on December 10, calling his statement ‘shameful, ‘ and scarily ‘dangerous.’ Watch here!
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“There’s clearly a large segment of the Republican electoral base that responds very positively to the things Trump has been saying”, Abramowitz said. Fully 54% of Republicans agreed with Trump, while 38% disagreed. “True Muslims know that the ruthless violence of so called Islamic Jihadists goes against the very tenets of our religion”, says former boxer who’ll always be known as “The Greatest”.
