Posted on 02/20/2016 8:40:25 PM PST by TigerClaws
Preliminary exit polls in South Carolina show widespread support among Republican primary voters for Donald Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban foreign Muslims from entering the United States. In New Hampshire, 65% of GOP voters back the proposal. In South Carolina, that number jumped to three-quarters of voters.
Forty-percent of voters support Trump’s proposal to deport illegal immigrants.
ABC News:
Preliminary exit poll results indicate that three-quarters of the state’s primary voters support temporarily banning Muslims who are not U.S. citizens from entering the United States. That’s even more than the support for this proposal among GOP voters in New Hampshire, 65 percent – a core support group for Trump in that state.
Many fewer – but still more than four in 10 – favor deporting undocumented immigrants, another very strong group for Trump in New Hampshire. And, in another helpful result for Trump, four in 10 pick him among five top candidates as best able to handle the economy – twice as many as pick his nearest competitor on this issue, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)97% .
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Can’t say I like the “temporary” part.
Poll would also indicate that 1/4th are idiots.
Oxymoron.
aw cripes, I just had to listen to Hillary screeching in her raspy singsongy voice about how we HAve to reFORM our BRoken crIMINal jusTICE and IMMigration SYStems.
Trump will solve it and the national eardrums will be spared.
how many support a PERMANENT ban i wonder...
the other quarter wants them shot into space using giant circus cannons.
It was an open primary.
Perhaps the other 1/4th want a permanent ban.
That would work for me.
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