“Trump’s a tough guy, Rubio knows foreign policy, Cruz knows foreign policy as well”. “All I want to do is [have] a level playing field”. An ABC/Washington Post poll showed voters trust the former secretary of state to handle the terrorism threat more than any of the Republican candidates.
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Mr. Kasich said the differences he has with Mr. Trump are strictly about the issues and suggested the NY billionaire’s political appeal would not last.
The panic over refugees from Syria has fed nicely into Trump’s brand of xenophobic, crypto-fascist politicking, and this weekend he went on ABC News and defended his claim that “thousands and thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey cheered on 9/11 when the World Trade Center came crashing down.
At a rally in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday morning, Trump said he “watched in Jersey City, New Jersey, where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down”. “The Iowa Republican Caucus has become a two-tiered contest: Businessman Donald Trump and neurosurgeon Ben Carson lead on the outsider track, and Sens”. But the real story of this poll, George, is Ted Cruz.
Trump, the GOP primary leader, has 27.5 percent support according to a RealClearPolitics average of national polls.
He’s followed by Cruz (73% view him favorably while 15% see him unfavorably), Rubio (70% to 18%) and Trump (59% to 34%).
Meanwhile, 49 percent of respondents said that Trump is the best candidate to handle the economy, followed by Cruz who received 11 percent support. Bush is in fifth place with 5.5 percent.
That was thanks to a week of bumbling comments by the retired neurosurgeon, underscored by the Paris attacks that have made his lack of experience seem less endearing and more harmful than ever.
“We gotta knock the crap out of them folks, I’ll tell ya”. “If there are multiple reports and indications that radicalization is going on there, we shouldn’t just turn a blind eye to that”.
“We have to really be vigilant with respect to the Muslim population”, Trump said at one point, calling for heavy surveillance of mosques, among other efforts.
A new Iowa poll puts Sen.
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Waterboarding was first used by the U.S. in 2002 on an al-Qaida suspect, then on at least two other Central Intelligence Agency detainees during the Bush administration, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden and mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
