Those voters are divided nearly evenly: 38% support Trump’s proposal, while 39% oppose it.
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Former boxing champion Muhammad Ali, one of the best-known U.S. Muslims, appeared on Wednesday to join the chorus condemning the proposal by Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to temporarily stop Muslims from entering the country. It’s one that is shared by Democrats and Republicans alike’.
Enthusiasm for and attention to the campaign are higher among Republican primary voters than among their Democratic counterparts.
This difference in the two polls is likely due in part to the wording of questions.
“It was more logistical in nature, not strategic”.
The poll also found that while 59% of Americans have a favorable view of Muslims compared with 29% who don’t, just 43% of Republicans hold a favorable view of Muslims while 48% don’t. Muslim leaders, the United Nations and foreign leaders criticised the call as unsafe and divisive, while the White House said Mr Trump should be disqualified from serving as president. Thirty-seven percent of Republicans were bothered by his language, but said they think he is “raising important issues”.
“I think it should be shut down for now until you find something, a better program in place”, Reggie Johnson, a Trump supporter, told CNN outside the Republican candidate’s rally in Charleston, South Carolina. Not surprisingly, voters were sharply divided along partisan lines.
Trump earlier this week called for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States”. Those numbers were unchanged from a WSJ/NBC poll conducted in October.
Trump Tower, a 68-story, mixed-use building in midtown Manhattan, is the flagship property of the Trump Organization, the worldwide real-estate company that Donald Trump leads as chairman and president.
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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.
