Hillary Clinton to Seth Meyers: Trump Is No Longer Funny

Trump drew criticism from within his own party and from leaders around the world this week after calling for the ban on Muslims entering the United States.

Attacks on the combative candidate also make voters like him more, as seen in one focus group.

Trump’s rivals continue to line-up in opposition. When pressed about the legality and constitutionality of such a discriminatory act, Trump arrogantly stuck to his demand claiming that it would be a temporary measure until a more permanent fix to containing terrorism in the country can be devised.

Almost every prominent Republican has denounced, or at least disavowed, Trump’s call on Monday for a ban on Muslims in the wake of the Islamic State-linked terrorist attacks.

It comes after Mr Trump sparked outcry with a series of comments after two Muslims, who the Federal Bureau of Investigation said had been radicalised, killed 14 people in California.

“It’s Trump being Trump”, said her husband, Scott Hamel, a registered Republican who works for a supply chain engineering company. President Barack Obama has urged Americans not to respond by viewing all Muslims as an unsafe force, but Trump has called for a pause of Muslim immigration “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on”. At the Luntz focus group, Cruz was the top pick for second choice.

Next Tuesday night, the GOP candidates will debate in Las Vegas.

Nonetheless, union executive board members who attended a closed-door meeting to cast their votes say they believe Trump is the man who will stand by law enforcement, focusing on his past support of the police.

Earlier on Friday, the website for Trump Tower, the 68-story building that the Republican presidential nominee owns, went down, according to various media sources.

The poll, released on Thursday, also indicates that 25 percent of respondents are in favor of the GOP frontrunner’s views against Islam and Muslims, making one United States citizen in four supporting the Trump’s controversial notion. 

The Republican establishment thinks that’s a surefire way to elect Hillary Clinton, but the Luntz focus group participants who said they’d support an independent Trump bid disagreed with that calculation.