U.S. Presidential Candidate 2016: Trump Tops Polls After ISIS Attacks in Paris

Donald Trump is surging ahead in the 2016 presidential race, just two months before the first votes come in.

According to a CBS poll Trump has reclaimed his lead in Iowa, with 30 percent support among the registered Republican voters. Ben Carson, who was tied with Trump just a month ago, has fallen to third place with only 19 percent support. Texas Senator Ted Cruz, meanwhile, surged to second place with 21 percent support.

In New Hampshire, his lead is even more commanding, leading with 32 percent support, followed by Florida Senator Marco Rubio with only 13 percent.

This is far from the original assumption that support for political novices, Trump and Carson, will fall away before the first votes are cast. With Trump being a resilient frontrunner, that prospect is far from certain.

Republican media consultant Rick Wilson told the Wall Street Journal, "People are finally taking the threat that Trump will destroy the Republican Party and lose the general election to Hillary Clinton seriously."

The Washington Post also noted that on average, the polls that have been released since the day before the November 13 attack in Paris showed Trump gaining 3 percentage points while Carson fell almost 5 points.

The outlet also showed how Trump leads among most demographics groups: he led men by 10 points, women by 11. He led the "very conservative" by one point (within the margin of error), but led the moderates, by 16 points. He leads among those with college degrees by two points while those without, 14 points. He did not win over the evangelicals, though, as it showed that Carson is still up on their vote by 6 points.

Trump's hard line has benefited him in some way regarding the elections, especially in the wake of the Paris attacks. The business mogul has spent the entire week after the attacks remarking on his hard line about refugees, immigrants, and terrorists --- all of which are highly unlikely to hurt him.

In a report by Yahoo!, for instance, Trump has been vocal about creating more checkpoints for the refugees via a digital database. "When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we don't know if they're ISIS, we don't know if it's a Trojan horse. And I definitely want a database and other checks and balances. We want to go with watch lists. We want to go with databases," he said.

This may be among the issues that have propelled Trump onward in his bid for the oval office, and with only 70 days to go before the first votes, it looks like Donald Trump is here to stay.

For the meantime, anyway.