Clinton is high in Polls because of the incident in Paris

In the wake of last week’s attacks in Paris, Americans say Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the White House hopefuls best able to handle the threat of terrorism, according to a new Reuters. The poll of 1,106 respondents taken after Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris found that Clinton and Trump were preferred by approximately 20% of respondents each as the 2016 candidate “best suited to deal with terrorism. “Trump and Clinton also took the top spots among members of their own parties when it came to who could handle terrorism best, as Trump topped Marco Rubio, who’s made foreign policy a centerpiece of his campaign, among Republicans. Both candidates have also long held overall polling leads in their bids for their parties’ presidential nominations, though Trump and Ben Carson have alternated in the top spot among Republicans in recent surveys. While they may share a spot atop the Reuters poll when it comes to dealing with terrorism, they’ve staked out very different policy terrain in the days since the Paris attacks. Trump has argued that less restrictive gun laws in France would’ve helped foil the attackers. He’s also opposed moves to allow Syrian refugees into the United States, suggesting instead the creation of a safe zone in Syria. Clinton, meanwhile, denounced on Twitter Tuesday what she called the “hateful rhetoric from the GOP” on the refugee question, saying “the idea that we’d turn away refugees because of religion is a new low.”