Hillary Clinton no longer finds Donald Trump funny

Hillary Clinton isn’t laughing anymore. In an appearance on NBC’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” the Democratic frontrunner said that Donald Trump is no longer funny and that he has gone too far. Clinton said the real estate mogul’s recent call to bar Muslims from entering the United States is not only “shameful and wrong” but “dangerous.”

This latest demand that we don’t let Muslims into the country really plays right into the hands of the terrorists. And I don’t say that lightly, but it does. He’s giving them a great propaganda tool, a way to recruit more folks from Europe and the United States.

Hillary Clinton

According to Clinton, everyone — especially Republicans — should condemn Trump’s comments as intolerable and unrepresentative of the United States. Many of Trump’s GOP rivals have been among the chorus of politicians condemning the recent proposal all week. According to an online Reuters/Ipsos poll released Friday, the first national survey conducted entirely after the billionaire’s remarks, Trump held onto his commanding lead in the Republican race with his support holding firm at 35 percent of GOP voters. That gives Trump a 23-point lead over retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who came in second.

There’s clearly a large segment of the Republican electoral base that responds very positively to the things Trump has been saying.

Alan Abramowitz, a political science professor at Emory University

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