He went on to explain that he thought Islam was “incompatible with the Constitution”.

“For a long, long time in the history of America, there were people who would say, ‘you know, we don’t want a Catholic to be president of the United States.’ And then John F. Kennedy became president in 1960″, Sanders said. He’s not going to weigh on whether President Obama was born in the United States, whether or not he’s not a Muslim.

Donald Trump used his Twitter account to respond to his latest controversy – how he handled a voter’s anti-Muslim question.

Todd asked Trump how he felt, but the candidate sidestepped the question: “Would I be comfortable?”

Trump later added, “Certainly what’s happening with some Muslims and the terrorism and everything else seems to be pretty much confined there, so it is a problem and we can say no, but it is”.

On a mobile phone? When asked whether he would vote for a Muslim for Congress, the presidential contender said he would have to evaluate the hypothetical candidate’s policies.

Real-estate mogul Donald Trump apparently has nothing but kind words for the supporter who asked him about anti-Muslim conspiracy theories last week. Tapper continued questioning Trump about the fact that Trump did not interrupt the gentleman who said, our President is a Muslim. Under fire from critics, Trump sent out a series of tweets yesterday, defending why he chose not to correct the supporter. “Some people have said it already happened”. “Now, in all fairness, he said he was a Christian and he said he is a Christian”, Trump said.

“They say there is a problem with certain militants that obviously you report on every night on your newscasts”, Trump said.

Trump: “George, you have raised the question”. I know one thing he’s not going to defend me. “They are great people, they are fantastic people….”

Democratic presidential hopeful and frontrunner Hilary Clinton was quick to criticize Trump’s reaction to the “hateful rhetoric” leveled against Barack Obama.

Four years ago, Trump had pressed Obama to release his birth certificate – which Obama did.

On Meet the Press, Carson dismissed these theories, saying: “I believe he is [American], I have no reason to doubt what he says”. Another said, “If someone made a nasty or controversial statement about me to the president, do you really think he would come to my rescue?”