Donald Trump continues to hold a commanding lead in his 2016 Republican run for the White House despite recently calling for a ban on all Muslims seeking to enter the U.S.

Yahoo reports a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday and conducted since the controversy broke out shows Trump garnering 35 percent of the vote, almost triple that of closest challenger Ben Carson at 12 percent.

The cushion is the same one Trump held prior to ranting Muslim immigrants, students and other travelers should all be barred from entering the country in the wake of all the terrorist acts now gripping the globe.

Most Republicans Not Bothered By Trump's Remarks

A dramatic 64 percent of GOP voters insisted to researchers they were not offended by Trump's divisive rhetoric, against just 29 percent who admitted they were bothered by it.

"He's really saying what everybody else is feeling," said Donna Fee, 57, a personal caregiver from Missouri. A registered Republican, Fee added she supports Trump's position, but admitted his brutal openness could hurt him with other voters.

By comparison, 72 percent of all Democrats indicated they were offended by the real estate mogul's stance and 47 percent of all voters overall agreed.

Bush, Cruz Still Holding On

Other than the retired neurosurgeon Carson, the poll found the only other GOP candidates registering in double digit support were former Florida Governor and onetime party front-runner Jeb Bush and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, both at 10 percent.

Trump's stance on Muslims followed a recent mass shooting in California, where a married couple whom the FBI later said had become Islamist militants opened fire at an office party, killing at least 14 and injuring more than a dozen others.

Leaders in Britain, France, Israel and Canada have all denounced him, and the backlash could come to negatively impact his global brand. A Dubai firm building a $6 billion golf complex recently stripped Trump's name from the property.

Conducted between Dec. 8-11, the online poll involved 481 Republicans and had a measure of accuracy of five percentage points.