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The Reuters/Ipsos survey, conducted on the last two days of January just after President Donald Trump banned travel from seven Muslim majority countries, found 49 per cent of American adults said they either “strongly” or “somewhat” agreed with Trump’s order.

Of the 1,201 people questioned, 41 per cent of people strongly or somewhat disagreed with the ban and another 10 per cent said they did not know.

The divide was split along partisan lines with 53 per cent of Democrats disagreeing with it and 51 per cent of Republicans agreeing with it.