A look at the candidates’ approaches to Tuesday’s debate

The 2 voters have been part of a spotlight group of 29 past & present Trump supporters interviewed by Republican advisor & CBS News source contributor Frank Luntz in Virginia last week.

“He speaks how he feels and speaks honestly, he means what he said and the other political people are using nice words to make it sound nice but Trump is not, he tells it like it is”, Hood said.

“I know I’m afraid”, said Wood who was laid off from his construction job in 2011 and has since settled into retirement. When I say this, I’m running to do the right thing. Trump said Cruz doesn’t have the right temperament or the right judgment to be president, and has acted in the Senate “like a little bit of a maniac”.

Trump said on Sunday that Hillary Clinton “killed hundreds of thousands of people with her stupidity” when she was secretary of State.

The blustery New Yorker’s proposal this week to ban foreign citizens who are Muslims from entering the USA for an indefinite period of time was just the latest example of Trump connecting with a large portion of the Republican base, moving the debate in previously unthinkable ways and putting his rivals in a tough position.

KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR: What I’m trying to say is that although Mr. Trump isn’t committing the violence, when the violence happens, he exploits it. OK, so instead of offering a practical and realistic solutions, he’s exploiting people’s fear and he’s doing ISIS’s work for them.

Linda Williams said that Trump’s “showman” personality is sometimes over-the-top, but she said she looks “way beyond that”. At this point we don’t need more Muslim enemies, we need more Muslim allies. The remaining 36 per cent were against Trump’s idea.

“In politics, perceptions count”, political scientist Jack Pitney of Claremont McKenna College told Bloomberg in an email. He has offended women, Hispanics, African Americans, Jews, Muslims, and Asians.

“Conservative Republicans are better served by casting out a demagogue like Donald Trump and, regrettably, the supporters who may follow him, in order to clarify and broaden electoral support for conservatism among new voters in the long term”, said Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist. Another voter named Tina defined, “You know what Trump does?”

Trump has led in almost every national poll for months, though his solid lead in the key early state of Iowa is being threatened by Cruz – who recently topped Trump in an Iowa poll out this weekend.

“But they don’t support the ban?”

Trump is at 41% in a Monmouth University poll out Monday, holding a wide advantage over his GOP challengers.

That discrepancy is another cause for nervousness among Republicans. “Nobody knows if these folks will actually show up in the nomination process, which creates uncertainty and nervousness in GOP ranks”. But many Donald Trump supporters are angriest at a group of white Christians.

Will Trump go rogue if he’s not treated well?