CNN’s Van Jones Slams Donald Trump For ‘Deliberately Stoking Fear’ About Muslims

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has gained momentum in polls as he vowed heightened security measures that target Muslims in the wake of the Islamic State attack on Paris, with the electorate’s new focus on terrorism boosting several Republican candidates ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton in theoretical matchups. Cruz is at 23% support, doubling his support from four weeks ago.

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is backing away from his Monday claim that he saw American Muslims celebrating the September 11 attacks. Marco Rubio of Florida at 13 percent. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush did not see improvement, getting 5 percent support last month and 4 percent this month.

Donald Trump gets 25 percent of Iowa likely Republican Caucus participants in a too-close-to-call race with Sen.

“I believe the refugees coming in, they need to find out who they are – have a database, where they’re at, where they’re gonna be staying”, he said. Rand Paul of Kentucky each received 2 percent in the Fox News poll.

He’s followed by Cruz (73% view him favorably while 15% see him unfavorably), Rubio (70% to 18%) and Trump (59% to 34%).

Mr. Trump and Mr. Carson were tied at 27 percent in the same poll in October. Ted Cruz of Texas.

“For any attorney to suggest the RNC can control how, or who supports or opposes particular candidates shows a basic misunderstanding of politics, free speech and the law”, RNC spokeswoman Allison Moore said in an email.

Campaigning about an hour west of Las Vegas, Carson said that not only mosques, but schools, supermarkets, vehicle fix shops and “any place where radicalization is going on” should be monitored in light of terrorist threats. Ted Cruz, who is now in the fourth place with eight percent, has to work harder to catch up to his rivals.

But Ted Cruz is expected to go even higher in polls after he was endorsed last week by Representative Steve King of Iowa, one of the most hard-right members of the House, says NY Times.

Mr Trump said he predicted in his book, The America We Deserve, published in 2000, that Bin Laden, the late al-Qaeda leader assassinated by USA forces in 2011, would try to strike America.

“Worth remembering, however, is that winning Iowa is no guarantee of success elsewhere”, Brown said in the statement. “Rick Santorum took the 2012 crown, yet both were quickly gone from those nomination fights as the primary calendar moved to larger states”, Brown said.

Trump on Monday also dug into his claim that Muslims in New Jersey celebrated the terrorist attacks on 9/11, a claim that has been widely debunked by multiple fact-checkers.