Donald Trump’s counsel backs his ‘9/11’ claim, says he’s ‘probably’ right

A new poll indicates that Donald Trump has regained a slight lead in Iowa, with Ted Cruz very close behind and Ben Carson moving down. Marco Rubio, polling at 18 and 13 percent respectively. Cruz has more than doubled his support in Iowa since October, The New York Times explains, crediting his momentum with the passionate anti-terror rhetoric he has voiced since the carnage in Paris.

Bush also said that Trump’s “broad-brush attack on people who are as American as anybody else” is “not gonna work”. So terrorism and foreign policy were the primary issues that counted for voters, cited by 30 percent of Republicans in deciding whom to support, says NY Times. He told ABC News he had misunderstood the questions when originally asked, and added that the video he had seen after the attacks on NY showed people celebrating in the Middle East, not in the U.S. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who received 5 percent and businesswoman Carly Fiorina, who garnered 3 percent of the vote, according to poll results.

Waterboarding was first used by the United States 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.

The survey found that 23 percent of likely Iowa Republican caucus participants support Cruz, up from just 10 percent in a poll conducted last month.

Carson still has the highest favorability rating, 79 percent, followed by Cruz at 73 percent. Despite winning in Iowa, their campaigns faltered as the nomination contest moved to New Hampshire and larger states.

Donald Trump has ratcheted up his populist U.S. presidential bid by claiming he can “feel” terrorism and boasting that he forecast the threat of Osama Bin Laden a year before the 9/11 attacks.

Trump, who kicked off his first visit to OH with a Buckeyes football chant, also repeatedly mocked rival John Kasich, the state’s governor, whose backers have launched an anti-Trump ad campaign and spent the day criticizing him before his visit.

The other Republican hopefuls were mired in low single digits.

“Things can change so quickly as we know, but if you have to look now you’ve got to say it looks like Trump, Cruz, Rubio and maybe Carson”, Kristol said. Stephanopoulos is adamant that “the police have said it didn’t happen” but it’s quite clear that Trump wasn’t going to suddenly say: “Yeah, you’re right”.