We are nearly sorry to still be talking about Donald Trump, days after he called for all Muslims to be banned from entering the US.
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Trump and Cruz are also one-two in SC, according to a survey released Thursday by Winthrop University, with the NY businessman leading the Texas senator 24%-16%.
“It does indicate Trump has limited potential in a general election”, said Fred Yang, a Democratic pollster who presented the survey on NBC with a Republican colleague, Micah Roberts.
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.
White House spokesman Earnest said the proposal should disqualify Trump from the U.S. presidency, deriding him as a “carnival barker” whose campaign belonged in the “dustbin of history”.
The Republican donor compared Trump’s remarks and behavior to the rise of dictators like Hitler, Mussolini and Fidel Castro, who garnered support among groups of people who had lost faith in their political leaders.
Senior GOP officials met at a routine private dinner this week and discussed the possibility of a brokered Republican convention, which hasn’t happened in decades.
Caroline Alexander, Lily Bickerstaff-Richard and Catherine Marcoullier, teenagers from York, Maine, said they want to stop Trump from being elected because they don’t want to live in a world filled with racism and sexism.
Trump told the paper that such a process would hurt him.
On CNN, he claimed, “I’m doing good for the Muslims”. They’re going to have problems, but I hope it’s not going to be that way. They all know each other.
All of the 29 participants – 20 men and nine women – live in the Washington area and voted for Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, in 2012.
He floated the idea, then signed a pledge ruling it out, and he’s begun raising it again this week since numerous party elders lambasted his Muslim-exclusion plan. It was after the petition was lodged that Mr Trump made his anti-Muslim remarks. “(John B.) Anderson got on in all 50 (states in 1980) and he didn’t start until April 24”.
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Despite reports that the much vilified candidate might go for an independent run, Trump said it was “highly unlikely”.
