Jeb: Trump ‘doesn’t know what he’s talking about’ on 9/11

Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican closing the gap on Donald Trump’s tremendous lead for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, could well win in the Iowa primary, says Bill Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio took fourth with 13 percent, holding steady from last month’s poll.

Meanwhile, Rubio who got 11 percent of the GOP vote, is the only other candidate in double figures, increasing by one percent from the last poll conducted. “There are going to be people who respond inappropriately to virtually everything”, Carson originally said on Monday when asked about the supposed cheering. “He had a big mouth, and he was talking”, Mr Trump said. “They don’t want that out because that’s not good for them”, Donald Trump said. Perhaps the most revealing portion of the polling is the slipping support of Dr. Ben Carson, who polled at 18 percent, and Sen.

Trump made controversial comments recently that he watched people cheering when the twin towers went down on September 11, 2001.

The billionaire businessman broke into the lead in Iowa with 30 percent of the vote among likely Republican caucusgoers, and Mr. Carson tumbled to third place with 19 percent, and Sen.

Only 15 percent of responders said terrorism and foreign policy would impact their choice, the poll found.

The Ohio governor’s campaign also released an ad on Monday about Trump saying he wanted to register all Muslims in the United States.

On Sunday, Politico reported the Iowa Evangelical base was in the midst of a dramatic shift away from Ben Carson, instead gravitating toward Texas Sen. Let’s bring in Jon Karl and, Jon, even as this is happening new polls showing Donald Trump back on top in Iowa.

From November 16 – 22, Quinnipiac University surveyed 600 likely Iowa Republican Caucus participants with a margin of error of +/- 4 percentage points.

“I would say we use our intelligence and we monitor anything: our mosques, a church, a museum, a supermarket”, the retired neurosurgeon said at a campaign stop in Pahrump, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who received 5 percent and businesswoman Carly Fiorina, who garnered 3 percent of the vote, according to poll results.

Michael Cohen, executive vice president and general counsel at the Trump organization, questioned Tuesday on CNN’s “New Day” whether Mair’s group was an RNC-supported effort.

While Carson’s poll numbers dropped significantly, he still has the best favorability ratings – 79 percent positive to 15 percent negative.