Trump's proposed Muslim ban didn't keep him from nearly tripling Mitt Romney's share of the Muslim vote

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[h=1]Trump's proposed Muslim ban didn't keep him from nearly tripling Mitt Romney's share of the Muslim vote[/h]

• Hillary Clinton badly beat President-elect among Muslim voters, garnering 74 per cent of the vote, compared to Trump's 13 per cent
• However, Trump did considerably better than 2012 nominee Mitt Romney, who got just over 4 per cent of the Muslim vote
• The Council on American-Islamic Relations released the exit poll
• The GOP share of the Muslim vote has risen int

By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 20:17, 24 November 2016 | UPDATED: 22:41, 24 November 2016

 

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President-elect Donald Trump's proposed 'temporary' ban on Muslims entering the United States apparently didn't prevent him from improving on the Republican presidential candidate's share of the Islamic vote for the third presidential election in a row.
Trump garnered 13 per cent of the Muslim vote, according to an exit poll released by the Council on American-Islamic Relations reveals. He got badly beaten among Muslims by Hillary Clinton, who got 74 per cent.
Clinton campaigned with Khizr Khan, the gold star father of slain Army Capt. Humayan Khan, and regularly stressed inculsion of Muslims in her 'stronger together' platform.
Trump's vote share, however, was nearly triple the 4.4 per cent Republican Mitt Romney got in 2012, according to a survey relased by CAIR that year.

 

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President-elect Donald Trump won 13 per cent of the Muslim vote, according to an exit poll – badly losing the group to Hillary Clinton, but still improving on Mitt Romney's performance in 2012

Republican John McCain got just 2 per cent of the Muslim vote against President Obama. Obama got 89 per cent then.
'Muslims were more energized and engaged this election than ever before, turning out in record numbers, said CAIR Director of Government Affairs Department Robert McCaw in an official release, which offered no mention of Trump's Muslim ban and didn't try to explain the result.
Trump's proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the U.S. brought a wave of criticism from civil liberties groups. He kept the proposal on his website throughout the campaign. Later, the candidate modified his rhetoric to call for 'extreme vetting' of immigrants from countries with high levels of terrorism, but never explained precisely how it would work.
He also criticized President Obama for admitting thousands of refugees from the Syrian civil war into the country, and claimed Hillary Clinton would let in far more.

 

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Trump improved on Mitt Romney's performance from 2012 even as he called for a Muslim ban and later 'extreme vetting' of immigrants

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Mitt Romney got over 4 per cent of votes from Muslim Americans, according to a 2012 exit poll

 

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It wasn't a Muslim ban. It was a proposal to stop accepting Muslim refugees until they can be thoroughly vetted.


The media is just stuck on stupid.

 

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Muslims voting for Hilary is like Turkeys voting for Thanksgiving.

 

[Greenbacks]

No way Mitt Romney.....Don`t do it Donald.

Let that mother fucker sweep the floors

 

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[Michelangelo]

Are those women some of your Muslim friends, Greenbacks?

 

[SheriffJoe]

Are those women some of your Muslim friends, Greenbacks?

Allah would not approve.

Without their burkas, some Muslim women are totally hot!