Poll Reveals Most Trump Supporters Believe Obama Is A Muslim Not Born In U.S.
During a visit to his father’s native Nairobi, Kenya this summer, President Barack Obama thumbed his nose at the so-called birther movement: people who believe he was not born in the United States. “I suspect that some of my critics back home are suspecting that I’m back here to look for my birth certificate,” he joked while delivering a toast at a state dinner hosted by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta . “That is not the case.” But a new poll released Tuesday conducted by Public Policy Polling shows that a large swath of Republicans who are regular primary voters actually believe that President Obama is indeed Muslim and was born outside of the United States. And Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric, most notably against Mexican immigrants, is playing well among his party’s voters, who also believe that children of undocumented immigrants should be deported, the results show. “Donald Trump’s saying things out on the campa...