copycat type initiatives. in the paris attacks, there was speculation that gop voters would look to the republican candidates with the maturity and experience to make wale real presidential decisions. that eliminates donald trump. instead, republican primary voters have been rallying around trump, who has gotten huge cheers around strategy for isis that says i would bomb the [ bleep ] out of them. republicans support for trump has risen from 25% all the way up to 33%, an 8-point spike. in a climate of fear, it is not the quote/unquote serious primary candidates voters are turning to. rather a candidate that offers bombastic proclamations of toughness, calls for killing the families of alleged terrorists, including women and children. he seeks to keep all muslims out of the country, at least he says temporarily. that is what the other presidential hopefuls will be doing their best to emulate on that debate stage tonight.
max cleland comes to mind first. someone who left half his ba body on the battlefield, lost in the face of this sort of thing. so as long as they drive it and certainly their basis is revved up for it, and, frankly, it s problemattic for the other republicans in the debate tonight because donald trump oddly enough has a double-digit lead over most of the field on dealing with terrorism. so, the conversation right now is benefiting the republican party and the conversation, in particular, is benefiting donald trump. now, if we go into the general election where the top issue is not economics and a top issue as far as terrorism, it s a better environment for republicans. you know, what you said about trump there is also interesting. because i ve watched as republican after republican has donned on them. they first thought, oh, great, terrorism, now security, foreign policy, i got this. i m the best briefed on this, i have experience. i served in all these roles.
blood thirsty debate since arguing about the war of 1812. cruz will be the isolationist tonight. lindsey frame and those guys already put him there so if he can withstand it, i don t think he will get it from trump. he will get it from jeb bush or chris christie. if donald trump continues to be as strange as he has been. if he can be strange enough to make ted cruz palatable. that is a reverse am of a physical law. mr. suarez, i m curious about your sense of the rhetoric in this race has been like as a christian leader. as a man of faith. when you hear about, say, bank people that have a specific faith for a period of time, does that concern you? absolutely. i want to read a short quote from the president of the national hispanic christian leadership conference, sam reasonable doubt guess, where
him. he gets 30 seconds to whack them. don t forget to join us at 11:00 p.m. on eastern i ll be back with two hours coverage with all the highlight, all the good stuff. all the low lights, too. and number analysis of the candidate s performances. who is coming out toornlt? at all in with chris hayes. tonight on 80 all in. look at all those press. fear and voting in las vegas. this selection is about the essence of america. about all of us who feel out of place in our own country. tonight as campaign chaos gives way to the last republican debate of 2015. is there anyone who can do anything to slow donald trump? plus the final democratic word before the republican fight. we can fought give in to fear. bluster and bigotry are not credentials for becoming commander-in-chief. then, school shutdown.
recruiter potentially for isis, with the hateful language that he s made. he s not only potentially alienating our allies, our muslim ilies, who we want to be more involved in this fight against isis, but if anybody saw last night at a rally here in las vegas, donald trump s supporters, i mean, he s basically stoking cattle prodding his supporters into fear and hate. and when there was a black lives matter protester at his rally, that protestor was goaded. in fact, his supporters, donald trump s supporters said things like let s set the mf on fire. he s a muslim. shoot him. i know you can t be responsible crazy people at rallies do. sometimes it s totally out of your control. unfortunately, these incidents at donald trump s rallies are becomening more and more frequent. that is not worthy of america. that is not leadership. here s something that has