Daily Caller:
When Donald Trump originally proposed a temporary ban on
Muslims entering the country, polling showed that nearly six-in-ten
Americans were opposed to the idea. Since that time, public opinion has
gradually shifted to the extent that the number of Americans in favor of
the proposition now consistently exceeds the number of those opposed to
it.
“Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of
Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives
can figure out what is going on,” said a statement from the Trump
campaign on December 7, 2015.
Three days later, the Wall Street Journal released
a poll that found 57 percent of Americans objected to the proposed
Muslim ban. Just 25 percent of those polled supported Trump’s plan at
the time. CBS released similar polling results the next day. In the CBS poll, 58 percent of Americans opposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration and 36 percent supported it. […]
Reuters
has kept a rolling poll on the subject since May. On May 31, Reuters
found that 54.5 percent of Americans disagreed with the Muslim ban and
40.7 percent supported it.
By June 6, the same poll found that 52 percent of Americans supported the ban, while 44 percent opposed it.
The Reuters poll has remained steady after the Orlando terror attack.
On June 14, fifty percent of likely voters supported a temporary ban on
Muslims entering the United States, while 42 percent opposed it.
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