Hurt severely? You're pulling our legs, of course. Any moron could see the guy is a Muslim. If the guy were a white Christian and Trump commented about the guy's wife... maybe it would hurt Trump a little. But not this guy.
This is absurd, totally ridiculous beyond the pale. The lefties and fake conservative globalist cannot shout out reasons to vote for Hillary, so using the unstable meme on Trump is all they got... and it ain't much. Why are you so gullible?
just looking at the polls.
of course your response can be, well the polls are all baloney.
And that may be. But we won’t know till election day. (They weren’t baloney in either 2008 or 2012, even though many around here assured us they were, alas).
Moreover...as I pointed out previously...hilary has one issue, and one issue only. It’s that Trump is a scary racist.
Like it or not, this episode reinforces that narrative unnecessarily for those conditioned to look for evidence of his scary racism. And the media beating that 24/7 doesn’t help. The media is still very powerful with the American electorate.
Not at FR, of course, but in the country at large.
Finally...note that when all the previous gaffes happened (well, what the media told us were gaffes....), Trump’s polling numbers never budged. Sometimes in fact they went up.
This time is different, at least by that measure.
And polls are the only measure that we have at this time. Otherwise, we are just down to one person’s opinion and perception, and one person simply isn’t able to gather enough information about the country at large to know whether this comment helped, was ignored, or hurt.