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A Talking Points Memo reports Nearly Two-Thirds Of Likely GOP Voters Back Trump’s Muslim Ban . Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s recent proposal to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. has far from hurt his poll numbers; in fact, a poll released Wednesday found that almost two-thirds of GOP primary voters back the widely-condemned plan
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The Guardian reports Donald Trump’s Muslim Ban Proposal Throws Republican Party Into Chaos Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was disowned by his own party’s top leadership on Tuesday and faced calls to drop his White House bid as the world reacted with outrage to his plan for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. The billionaire frontrunner’s plan tipped the Republican presidential race into chaos, with party leaders from the chairman of the Republican National Committee to former US vice-president Dick Cheney condemning the idea as “un-Americanâ€. Trump toured the US television studios in unrepentant form, unmoved by the gale of criticism that followed his speech aboard an aircraft carrier on Monday evening.
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The Wall Street Journal reports Pending Home Sales Rise 0.2% in October , economists had predicted a 1.5% increase. The Bloomberg Econoday consensus was for a +1.0% gain. Sales of existing homes have been soft and are not likely to pick up in the next few months based on October’s pending sales index which is up only 0.2 percent
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