Among Muslim Republicans, Donald Trump is first choice

WASHINGTON – - A survey of Muslim voters in six states has found one surprising result: Donald Trump was the most popular Republican presidential candidate, despite his calls for tighter surveillance of Muslims and limits on Muslim immigration. The poll, not unexpectedly, found that 67 percent of the respondents support the Democratic Party and 51 percent of them plan to vote for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders trailed with 22 percent. But of the 15 percent who said they intended to vote for Republicans, Trump was the first choice, with more than 7 percent of the total. More than 73 percent of respondents said they plan to vote in their states’ primary elections, an increase from the 69 percent who answered that way in a similar survey taken before the 2014 midterm elections.  Blackberry Display Picture, Find Here!
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The survey, which was commissioned by the Council on American Islamic Relations and carried out Jan. 26, comprised interviews with 2,000 registered Muslim voters in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas and Virginia - the states with the largest Muslim populations in the United States. The council did not identify the “independent automated call service provider” that undertook the survey. Robert McCaw, the council’s government affairs manager, suggested that the increase in respondents who said they planned to vote was likely “driven, at least in part, by concern over the rise” in anti-Muslim rhetoric since terrorist attacks late last year in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. About 30 percent of the respondents said “Islamaphobia” was their No. 1 concern. The economy and health care ranked No. 2 and No. 3. Despite the concern over anti-Muslim feelings, Trump was the most popular of the Republicans among the respondents - even with his calls for closing down mosques, monitoring Muslims and barring them from immigrating to the United States. Support for other Republicans was negligible: Ted Cruz received 2 percent, Jeb Bush 1.57 percent and Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina each received less than 1 percent. Ibrahim Hooper, the council’s director of communications, called the Trump result puzzling. “It is not unusual to find Muslim Republicans, because the two are similarly socially conservative,” he said. “But at a time when anti-Muslim rhetoric and bigotry is being spewed by Republicans, it is rather unusual.” Hooper, however, said it was possible that the Trump supporters were unaware of the candidate’s anti-Islam stands.

 

 

He noted that former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat who became the first presidential candidate to visit a mosque in December, was favored by just 0.98 percent of the respondents. “This is what makes me think that this result could be more about the recognition of Donald Trump’s name than anything,” he said. “People probably do not know of a Martin O’Malley, but they surely know of Donald Trump by default.”

 

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Surprise: Among Muslim Republicans, Donald Trump is No. 1

A survey of Muslim voters in six states has found one surprising result: Donald Trump was the most popular Republican presidential candidate, despite his calls for tighter surveillance of Muslims and limits on Muslim immigration. The poll, not unexpectedly, found that 67 percent of the respondents support the Democratic Party and 51 percent of them plan to vote for Hillary Clinton. Sen. Bernie Sanders trailed with 22 percent. But of the 15 percent who said they intended to vote for Republicans, Trump was the first choice, with more than 7 percent of the total. Blackberry Display Picture, Find Here!
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More than 73 percent of respondents said they plan to vote in their states’ primary elections, an increase from the 69 percent who answered that way in a similar survey taken before the 2014 midterm elections. Puzzling. Ibrahim Hooper, director of communications The survey, which was commissioned by the Council on American Islamic Relations and carried out Jan. 26, comprised interviews with 2,000 registered Muslim voters in California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Texas and Virginia – the states with the largest Muslim populations in the United States. The council did not identify the “independent automated call service provider” that undertook the survey. Robert McCaw, the council’s government affairs manager, suggested that the increase in respondents who said they planned to vote was likely “driven, at least in part, by concern over the rise” in anti-Muslim rhetoric since terrorist attacks late last year in Paris and San Bernardino, California. About 30 percent of the respondents said “Islamaphobia” was their No. 1 concern. The economy and health care ranked No. 2 and No. 3. Despite the concern over anti-Muslim feelings, Trump was the most popular of the Republicans among the respondents – even with his calls for closing down mosques, monitoring Muslims and barring them from immigrating to the United States. Support for other Republicans was negligible: Ted Cruz received 2 percent, Jeb Bush 1.57 percent and Rand Paul, Ben Carson, Chris Christie and Carly Fiorina each received less than 1 percent. Ibrahim Hooper, the council’s director of communications, called the Trump result puzzling. “It is not unusual to find Muslim Republicans, because the two are similarly socially conservative,” he said.

“But at a time when anti-Muslim rhetoric and bigotry is being spewed by Republicans, it is rather unusual.” EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE Hooper, however, said it was possible that the Trump supporters were unaware of the candidate’s anti-Islam stands. He noted that former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat who became the first presidential candidate to visit a mosque in December, was favored by just 0.98 percent of the respondents. “This is what makes me think that this result could be more about the recognition of Donald Trump’s name than anything,” he said. “People probably do not know of a Martin O’Malley, but they surely know of Donald Trump by default.”

 

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Some Muslim-Americans Are Actually Supporting Donald Trump. Here’s Why.

Share 471 Tweet Comment Islamophobia became Muslim Americans primary voting concern after a year fraught with anti-Muslim incidents, according to a new survey conducted by the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). But that hasn’t stopped the most flagrant offender of anti-Muslim rhetoric from being the preferred Republican candidate among Muslim-Americans. Donald Trump came in third among candidates of both parties, with just over 7 percent support in CAIR’s poll. Sen. Cruz (R-TX) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush came in behind Trump with just 2 percent. Republican candidates’ figures were dwarfed by the leading Democrat candidates, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders who polled at 52 percent and 22 percent, respectively. Blackberry Display Picture, Find Here!
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But Trump’s support is still somewhat of a surprise after repeated incidents of anti-Muslim rhetoric, including Trump’s infamous callfor a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. “I think because of his anti-establishment [views] and his business background gives hope for economic policies Republicans traditionally aligned with,” Sabah Ahmed, founder of the Republican Muslim Coalition, told ThinkProgress. “He has worked with Muslims all his life, and he has properties all over the Middle East, despite [his] anti-Muslim rhetoric, and many business dealings with our constituency and knows we’re good people.” “There are a core group of Muslim Republicans and [Donald] Trump and [Sen. Ted] Cruz are the frontrunners of the Republican party and those Muslims will support the party as party loyalists do,” CAIR’s Government Affairs Manager Robert McCaw, who oversaw the survey, told ThinkProgress. The most important issue for 24 percent of Muslim-Americans in 2014 was the economy, whereas Islamophobia was the most important issue for 15 percent. In 2016, the economy stood firm with Muslim voters at 24 percent but Islamophobia jumped to become the most important issue for 30 percent of the this community. CREDIT: Graphic by Dylan Petrohilos “This can be directly traced back to the toxic political environment of fear around Muslims in America,”McCaw said. “[The figures] reflects an unprecedented number of attacks in houses of worship last year.” Muslim-Americans are a highly-diverse group of people that span a myriad of ethnic groups and nationalities. Important issues to Muslim voters vary based on these demographics, though it is widely believe that a substantial segment held conservative social and economic beliefs. “George W. Bush made Muslim outreach a priority [in 2000], and he did well with the bloc,” David A. Graham wrote in the Atlantic, Monday. “But following the attacks of September 11, 2001, the Muslim vote has swung strongly toward Democrats, driven by opposition to wars in the Middle East and concerns about civil liberties and Islamophobia stateside.” That shift continued in the last two years.

In 2014, 51 percent of Muslims surveyed told CAIR that they support the Democrat party, compared to just 15 percent who identified as Republican. In 2016 though, the percentage of Democrats jumped to 67 percent while the figure for Republicans stayed the same. CREDIT: Graphic by Dylan Petrohilos “I think that Muslims are a key constituency in swing states like Florida, Virginia, and Ohio and anti-Muslim narratives…could lose the general election,” McCaw said. “The community has been able to tip elections in the past and I think they can again.” Ahmed agreed that American Muslims could be influential in the upcoming election and said the RMC invited Trump to a campaign event. “I’m hoping we will hear from a lot of GOP candidates and I hope to see him [Trump] at mosques in key electoral states,” she said.

 

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