“It’s highly unlikely to cause a political penalty, and there is no evidence that it has”. He also voiced support for a database to track Muslims in the country. But if the issue were pressed, most reasonable people would concede that somewhere near the bottom of the Republican barrel, there must be someone who would actually be worse than a run-of-the-mill Democrat.
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On Sunday, November 23, Trump appeared on the ABC News interview program “This Week”, and reiterated his false claims about seeing televised reports on Muslim celebrations in Jersey City after the 9/11 attacks. Mr. Trump maintains that in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, he saw television clips of Muslims in New Jersey rejoicing that the US had been attacked.
Trump’s effort on Monday mirrors that of rival outsider Ben Carson, the retired pediatric neurosurgeon who is making a similar pitch to black evangelicals.
“His most egregious action that stands for the primary reason why he is persona non grata with the Latino community, including the Latino conservative community, is the engagement of demeaning, condescending, spiteful rhetoric as it pertains to the immigrant community”, said Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.
In August, Trump’s campaign staff kicked Univision anchor Jorge Ramos out of an event, and in October, his campaign barred Univision reporters from attending an event. “So I think I’m going to do great with the African American vote… They’re rapists.” He was widely denounced. In a statement from his campaign, he said the U.S. should not take in any of the people he met.
“I was prepared to share my thoughts with him about the injustice and racism that still plague our communities as well as enlighten him about our culture that has been misunderstood for years”, Walker wrote.
“People in Iowa particularly, are like, ‘Yeah!”
It all started about a week ago, at a rally in Birmingham, when Trump told followers: “I watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down”. “I don’t mind the hubbub”.
Bush, like Texas senator Ted Cruz and Florida senator Marco Rubio, has called for Christian refugees to be given priority concerning entry to the United States, a position which President Obama called shameful.
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Speaking before thousands who jammed into the Robarts Arena in Sarasota, Trump said he’s “killing everybody” in polls nationally and in early voting states. The decline in his popularity among Republicans is the biggest since he leapt to the top of the field in July, according to the poll released on Friday. But his recent comments on Muslim Americans are crossing the line from offensive, to risky. But opposition jumped in the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq and around major elections. Instead, like Bush, he said Trump would not win the nod. “We’ve really moved the threshold of what is socially acceptable”.
