According to a Fox News poll released yesterday, a significant plurality of Republican voters think Newt Gingrich is the most trustworthy candidate when it comes to nuclear weapons. 30% would most trust the former House Speaker with the nuclear codes, compared to 17% for Mitt Romney, who came in second place.A 13% plurality of GOP voters said they would least trust Ron Paul with nuclear weapons — which may stem in large part from his reluctance to use them. Paul’s famously non-interventionist foreign policy beliefs have led him, for example, to say he wouldn’t use military force to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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