when does the electorate start to demand greater details? well, if you go back to this point four years ago, most republicans thought rick perry would be their nominee, that romney was lurking in second place and the race had structure. this race we have to give trump credit and give him the structure. early on we all thought this was a wave that was going to crash. absolutely. he would implode. no one anticipated him getting this far. he s above 30% in the national polls, leading in iowa, leading in new hampshire. nobody votes for four months so there is a possibility when we get six weeks out or a month out, maybe his numbers will go down. maybe. that s what most of the other candidates are still depending on. they still believe that this is a reality tv show that it s not a real campaign. but in the meantime, several of them won t be there. rick perry s already gone. a few more will be gone by the time iowa votes. so the question is how do you if there s this wave out th
a kinder and gentler type of outsider. he s of course very different in demeanor than donald trump is. he also will be emphasizing his evangelical strength. wolf, i can tell you so many voters in iowa, social christian conservatives are keen on his candidacy. so they ll be watching him tonight. also, jeb bush. all eyes on jeb bush. most people at this point thought he would be the front runner in this race. of course he struggled to prove himself as a very outside year. but he s going to show he s oval office ready, i m told. one of his advisors said he has presidential leadership. he ll be interspersing policy proposals throughout his speech tonight and show he s fired up and ready to take on donald trump. finally, carly fiorina. carly fiorina will be on the big stage for the first time. she will be showing that she is able to confront trump. we saw that when she came into the hall today. she said she s ready to take him on. it s one of the things she ll be doing. she ll also be sayin
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bar because he s going up and he needs to convince people i m not just interesting, i m presidential. if you re jeb bush or scott walker in the spring you were the front runners. again nobody votes for four months but you have to do some business. this is not make or break for those guys. it could be make or break for some of these guys in the first debate and the guys on the end. the guys who have the money, resources, organization to go longer, your strategy is more chess, it s checkers for some of these guy who is could get jumped and be done. if you re thinking iowa the social conservatives are very, very powerful in those iowa caucuses. i think you ll see perhaps jousting between carson, huckabee, cruz, some of those candidates who are really counting on social conservative votes in iowa to move forward. when you look at our polling, what we don t talk about a lot is the fact that over 60% of the people that we poll, even in the early states, are undecided. so there s a lot of
however, we can say these things and say these things and we have been. i think he s at 30% in the polls. without a doubt. chairman rogers, his policy, what he says he would do with isis, bomb the hell out of them, take iraq s oil. he says there is no iraq, there are no iraqis, it s not a real country. he would send in u.s. oil companies. he would surround them with american troops and take the oil. is that a policy, does any of that make any sense? no. it s a bit heated rhetoric. and i do think he has time to recover and i d be very fascinated to hear his speech tonight. he has got to start talking about a coherent national security plan. it is a number-one issue in iowa amongst caucusgoers. that s big. same with new hampshire, it s number two. same with south carolina, it s way up there. he s going to have to go to those states and have real conversations about national security. the one thing that gets us in trouble are adversaries and our allies are watching this, too, so that