On the proposition of a ban on Muslims, 85 percent of Trump voters Agree

On the proposition of a ban on Muslims, 85 percent of Trump voters in the GOP's Super Tuesday primaries said they support the measure, but that fell to 60 percent for other Republican candidates' voters, according to NBC News early exit polls.
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December 09, 2015, 02:14 pm

Poll: Majority of Republicans support Trump's Muslim ban

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Nearly two-thirds of likely GOP primary voters support Republican presidential front-runner Donald TrumpDonald TrumpTrump finishes fourth at Liberty University despite Falwell endorsementRubio insists he'll still beat TrumpBiden thanks Trump for making America confront racismMORE’s proposal to ban Muslims from coming into the country, a new poll found.

A Bloomberg Politics/Purple Strategies PulsePoll released Wednesday found that the real estate mogul’s latest remarks are backed by 65 percent of likely GOP voters. When told both sides of the argument, support for Trump’s proposal remained relatively unchanged at 64 percent.

The online poll conducted Wednesday also found that about 37 percent of those surveyed would be more likely to vote for the businessman after his call to temporarily halt Muslims from entering the United States until elected leaders can “figure out what’s going on.”

 

“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,” Doug Usher of Purple Strategies, said. "This indicates that, despite some conventional wisdom expressed in the last 48 hours, this is unlikely to hurt Trump at least in the primary campaign."

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Voters Like Trump’s Proposed Muslim Ban

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Despite an international uproar and condemnation by President Obama and nearly all of those running for the presidency, Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims coming to the United States has the support of a sizable majority of Republicans – and a plurality of all voters.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 66% of Likely Republican Voters favor a temporary ban on all Muslims entering the United States until the federal government improves its ability to screen out potential terrorists from coming here. Just 24% oppose the plan, with 10% undecided.
Among all voters, 46% favor a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, while 40% are opposed. Fourteen percent (14%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Trump, the front-runner in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, proposed the ban following last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, California. Sixty-five percent (65%) of voters believe the two shooters in the incident were radical Islamic terrorists. Those individuals had entered the United States without problem and escaped detection despite several actions here suggesting that they had violent intentions.
Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters believe it is too easy for foreigners to legally enter the Untied States. Only 10% believe it is too hard, while 23% say the level of difficulty is about right.
Still, when thinking about immigration policy in general, 59% also feel that the United States should treat all potential immigrants equally, down only slightly from June. Thirty percent (30%) think the United States should allow more immigrants from some countries than others, a finding that’s changed very from past surveying.  Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.
Late last month – and prior to the mass murders in San Bernardino, Trump said he would support government tracking of Muslims living in the United States through a federal database, a plan his fellow GOP rivals said was going too far. But at that time, one-in-three voters - and a slight plurality of Republicans – supported government monitoring of Muslims.
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on December 8-9, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
Rasmussen Reports will post its latest weekly Trump Change survey tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. We’ll see if Trump’s latest remarks have raised or lowered expectations for his candidacy.
In another survey just before the San Bernardino incident, 49% of U.S. voters said Islam as practiced today encourages violence more than most other religions, and 71% thought Islamic religious leaders need to do more to emphasize the peaceful beliefs of their faith.
Most voters who believe Trump is likely to be the next Republican presidential nominee support his proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Men and women are in equal agreement on a temporary ban on Muslims coming here. The older the voter, the more likely he or she is to support such a ban.
Just 30% of Democrats favor Trump’s proposed ban, while 55% oppose it. Voters not affiliated with either major party support the ban by a narrow 45% to 39% margin.
The majority of voters in most demographic categories think it is too easy for foreigners to legally enter the United States but also feel that America should treat all potential immigrants equally.
While 78% of Republicans and 59% of unaffiliated think it is too easy to get into the United States, just 42% of Democrats agree. Voters in Obama’s party, on the other hand, feel more strongly than GOP and unaffiliated voters that the United States should treat all potential immigrants equally.
Only 30% of all voters think the federal government is doing a good or excellent job monitoring potential terrorists inside the United States.
Thirty-nine percent (39%) think the terrorists are winning the War on Terror, while only 28% believe the United States and its allies are winning.  That’s consistent with surveying for months but reflects voter attitudes before the terrorist attacks in Paris and last week’s massacre in California. We’ll be updating those findings tomorrow morning, too.

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Alabama

ABC News projects Trump will win the Alabama GOP primary, based on exit poll data.

Six in 10 Alabama GOP primary voters in preliminary exit poll data wanted a political outsider -- Trump’s most singular claim to fame -- and he took home more than six in 10 of their votes.

Nearly eight in 10 wanted to ban non-U.S. Muslims from entering the country and more than half supported deporting undocumented immigrants, both among the highest of any state so far this year. Trump won a majority support in both groups

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Tennessee

ABC News projects Trump will win the Tennessee GOP primary, based on exit poll data.

High numbers of voters in Tennessee said they support banning non-U.S. Muslims from entering the country (three-quarters) and want to deport undocumented immigrants (more than half), according to preliminary exit poll data.

Half of voters in the state wanted someone who “can bring needed change” or who “tells it like it is" -- very strong Trump groups. And more than half want someone from outside the political establishment.

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Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims plays well with fans, but horrifies others.
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At a rally in southwest Virginia on Monday, Republican front-runner Donald Trump again told an apocryphal story about a general killing Muslim terrorists with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood. In Tennessee on Saturday, he promised to bar Syrians from the country “until we find out what the hell is going on.” In Oklahoma City the night before, he launched into a passionate defense of waterboarding after a protester flashed a sign reading “Islamophobia is not the answer.”
And every time, the crowd roared with deafening cheers.
Along with his attacks on illegal immigrants, Trump’s willingness to go further than any of his GOP rivals in casting suspicions on Muslims has horrified many Republican establishment figures and has attracted widespread condemnation from both parties.

 

 Not all Muslims are bad, but ISIS, they are Muslims, so I have to think we have to group them together now,” said Charlie Shane, 21, a junior at Texas Tech University who decided to vote for Trump

But for many Trump supporters, the GOP front-runner’s harsh rhetoric on Muslims is one of the keys to his appeal, especially among evangelicals who feel that Christians are under siege and hampered by political correctness. Those feelings are probably a big part of the reason Trump is leading most of the 11 primary contests being held Tuesday, especially those in the South.
“Mr. Trump is not against Muslims

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He would temporarily ban most foreign Muslims from entering the country and would heavily surveil and possibly close some U.S. mosques.
“I think we need to, because that’s where it’s coming from,” said Jan Osban, 68, a retired nurse who attended Trump’s rally in Oklahoma City on Friday and plans to vote for him. “They use a religion to justify killing people. . . . They’re so insidious that they can be right here and you don’t know it until too late.”
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Senate Dems plan to force vote on Trump's Muslim ban

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http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/262656-poll-majority-of-republicans-support-trumps-muslim-ban
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