The petition follows Trump’s racist and offensive speeches including his call to bar Muslims except USA citizens overseas from entering the United States.
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Tomorrow he’s off to Iowa for a rally in another key early voting state trying to woo the electorate who’ll decide whether his improbable dream to take the White House can be realised. But cozying up to the GOP front-runner risks is fraught with risks, particularly after his controversial calls to bar Muslims from entering the US and comments to a Jewish group that some said bordered on anti-Semitic. “And you know, the poem that that came after World War II and the Holocaust that said – that talks about I didn’t speak up, and then they came for me, applies here”.
Still, many voters in Iowa, which holds its caucus on February 1, and New Hampshire, which has its primary on February 9, said Trump’s comments about Muslims showed that the NY billionaire was a loose cannon who must be defeated because he is unelectable.
Mr Trump tweeted on Thursday that he is postponing the trip, which had become problematic for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
‘We believe these numbers are made up of some people who are truly expressing religious bigotry and others who are fearful about terrorism and are willing to do anything they think might make us safer, ‘ said Doug Usher, the head of polling at Purple Strategies. He punched the entire political pantheon, in which nearly every Republican candidate has demonised Muslims, without being as inyour-face as Trump.
Trump this week called Clinton the “the worst secretary of state in history”, adding, “she’s the one who caused this problem” in reference to the San Bernardino slaying of 14 by two ISIS sympathizers.
Cruz has assiduously worked not to offend Trump throughout the campaign, seeking to keep a detente going and positioning himself for some of inflammatory mogul’s voters.
“We’ll go through the primaries, we’ll see what happens and I’ll make a determination”, he said.
“The people, the Republican Party, have been – the people – have been phenomenal”, Trump told ABC’s Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan the next day.
Trump supporters will be greeted tonight by protesters with The American Friends Service Committee.
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The question on Trump’s Muslim proposal was asked December 8-9 of 495 respondents and result has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
