I would bomb the hell out of ISIS, says Donald Trump

The overall sample has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. But what the heck, I’ll blog it. The trend, at least, is interesting.

When Trump and Carson go head-to-head, Trump is the choice among Republicans as the strongest candidate to fight the Islamic State (55 percent to 29 percent) and to handle Russian leader Vladimir Putin (52-38). Trump’s numbers were almost identical two months ago, but support grew for both Carson and Rubio.

Twenty-two percent of Utahns said they’d choose Carson to be the 2016 GOP nominee, while 9 percent picked Trump.

Bush, whose wife is Mexican and who is fluent in Spanish, lands fourth among Hispanics, with 13 percent saying they support him.

While there is surely some crossover, tea party and religious conservatives part company on some issues.

Although … what if the second part’s true too?

Beth Powers, the Utah organizer for Carson’s super PAC, said Carson is resonating with Utah voters.

All of this creates a lot of danger for the party’s establishment. Each still has twice the support of any other candidate for the nomination. Donald Trump, who was tied for the lead with Carson at 26% in the last NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll, is now in the lead at 28%. So far, the major polling impact has been a drop in support for Carson and an increase in support for Sen. The attacks didn’t expose Trump as ill-prepared or unversed.

At a time of amplified global threats, Trump said Carson isn’t up to the task of being commander-in-chief.

The rest of the field is in low single digits. You can imagine Cruz or Rubio neutralizing Carson’s advantage with evangelicals, but it’s hard to imagine anyone neutralizing Trump’s advantage among his own fans.

However, Cruz is hardly the only one who will profit if Carson falls apart.

Trump deserves credit for creating an “outsider” lane in which candidates can run.

In one, Trump says, he will get “tough on radical Islamic terrorism” and ‘quickly and decisively bomb the hell out of ISIS’.

The real loser in all this, then, is probably Rubio. “I think eventually people will come to realize it’s a unsafe world we live in, but we also have to take realistic approaches to the problems”. Meanwhile, unlike Cruz, there’s no obvious early state for him to win if Trump continues to ride high. In a matchup with Trump, Clinton leads by 10%.

A third radio ad is voiced by Louise Buck, whom the campaign identified in a release as a New Hampshire resident. It does provide some insight, however, into how he uses the media to his advantage.

That dissatisfaction is reflected in Obama’s performance rating, as more New Hampshire voters disapprove (50 percent) than approve (43 percent) of the job he is doing. He trails Rubio and Cruz in addition to Trump.

Trumps stand on immigration has hit a note with potential Republican voters also like his stance on guns and now he has upped his game after the ISIS attack on Paris.