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Trump's anti-Muslim plans scramble Republican appeals to Jewish voters
Reuters ^ | December 10, 2015 | James Oliphant and Michelle Conlin

Posted on 12/09/2015 4:42:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, Dec 9 (Reuters) - For the Republican Party, a tough job just got a little tougher thanks to Donald Trump.

For years, Republicans, backed by some influential donors, have carefully cultivated the vote of Jewish-Americans who regard the security of Israel their top concern. Less than a week ago, a bevy of presidential candidates stood before a group of Jewish conservatives in Washington, asking for their support and declaring their solidarity with the Jewish state.

But Trump's proposal to bar the entry of all foreign Muslims into the United States has upended some of those efforts, prominent Republicans said. His planned visit to Israel at the end of December is being viewed with increasing concern.

"It's unquestionably unhelpful. His comments are disgusting," Norm Coleman, a former senator from Minnesota and a board member of the Republican Jewish Coalition, told Reuters....

(Excerpt) Read more at trust.org ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: cruz; freedom; israel; jewishvoters; misstep; muslims; slipperyslope; tedcruz; trump; trumpisright; trumprepelsjews
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1 posted on 12/09/2015 4:42:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 12/09/2015 4:44:43 PM PST by Bon mots
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Trump is just espousing Common-Sense Islam Control.

(Instead of "common sense" gun control)

3 posted on 12/09/2015 4:45:17 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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I don’t want these murdering raghead refujihadis in my country. PERIOD.


4 posted on 12/09/2015 4:45:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (When guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh no, so we’re going to lose the 20 percent of the 2 percent of Jewish voters in America. What a loss. Obviously we never had their donor money to begin with and don’t really need it, so there’s no loss on that front.


5 posted on 12/09/2015 4:46:00 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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Norm needs to read more: http://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Before-we-lose-control#article=0MEM2QkIyNjE5NDhGQ0Y1QjNGMkZCOTJERUVDNzE2OEM=


6 posted on 12/09/2015 4:48:18 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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This makes no sense. I heard Trump’s speech, and the only negative response he got was when he refused to say that Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel. Other than that, the Jew’s reception of him was pretty warm and friendly. He got them laughing and in agreement with him a couple times.


7 posted on 12/09/2015 4:48:59 PM PST by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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Seriously? These idiot Jews think that admitting Muslims will keep them safer? Historically I have never seen a group of people less concerned with their own survival.


8 posted on 12/09/2015 4:49:05 PM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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A new poll out shows that like 65% of likely GOP voters support Trump’s proposal. Yet reading this story you’d think there was no one who supported the idea. The media is pure scum.


9 posted on 12/09/2015 4:49:19 PM PST by nhwingut (Trump-Cruz 2016 - Blow Up The GOP)
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Is the writer kidding? Or is it a voter concern because the liberal self-hating leftists are the Jewish majority? This sounds like more MSM BS.


10 posted on 12/09/2015 4:49:47 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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“For years, Republicans, backed by some influential donors, have carefully cultivated the vote of Jewish-Americans who regard the security of Israel their top concern. But Trump’s proposal to bar the entry of all foreign Muslims into the United States has upended some of those efforts, prominent Republicans said. His planned visit to Israel at the end of December is being viewed with increasing concern.
“It’s unquestionably unhelpful.”

Right, because Jews know how much Muslims love and respect Israel and Jews throughout the world, and would never harm a hair on the head of single Jew.

Next thing we know, the GOPe and their operatives will be telling us Trump’s hurting “the party” because the sun sets in the day and rises at night.


11 posted on 12/09/2015 4:49:50 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Bon mots

The secular Jews always seem to forget their history.


12 posted on 12/09/2015 4:50:54 PM PST by amihow (l)
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Huh? Did I miss something or are Muslims suddenly very nice to Jews?


13 posted on 12/09/2015 4:50:56 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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Keeping radical Jew-killing Muslims out is unpopular with Jews????


14 posted on 12/09/2015 4:51:43 PM PST by Williams (Dear God, please save us from the Democrats. And the Republicans.)
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It is BS the more I’m looking at the real world here. I just saw a poll and on MSNBC no less were 96% of blacks support Trumps Muslim ban. Well wait a minute here, we were told about 20 billion times by the MSM that Trump is a racist yet blacks support him?


15 posted on 12/09/2015 4:53:36 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

And the Orthodox & Hasidic Jews will STILL vote for Trump !


16 posted on 12/09/2015 4:53:41 PM PST by nopardons
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To: LS

I have never seen a group of people less concerned with their own survival.
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At a party this year I got into it with an observant Jew about Islam. I said Islam is the problem and he replied no, that is being bigoted. He then said: Jews are a resilient people and “we’re strong enough to absorb a few hits.” There is no reasoning with some people.


17 posted on 12/09/2015 4:53:56 PM PST by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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Don’t like Trump but this crap is LOL Looney tunes stuff.


18 posted on 12/09/2015 4:54:15 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Paladin2
Trump has not said he intends to make Islam illegal in the United states. He has not proposed any political, housing, employment, benefit, or service related tests or discrimination against Muslim Americans. He has simply stated that bringing Muslims in from outside the country needs to be stopped until we understand better how to vet those coming in and determine better which ones want to kill us, and which ones want to come here to actually be Americans.

There is a sensible analysis of the entire Trump proposal here, not just the cherry-picked provocative parts.

19 posted on 12/09/2015 4:54:27 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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Probably the same 65% who actually bothered to read the entire proposal, not just the cherry-picked controversial parts.


20 posted on 12/09/2015 4:56:00 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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