Donald Trump questioned whether Syrian refugees are part of a “Trojan horse” plot, suggested buying land in Syria to create a “safe space” and said that in 2000 he could “feel” that terrorists were going to strike in the United States, the New York Times reports.

“Trump boasted to the crowd that in his book, The America We Deserve, published in 2000 as he was considering a presidential run that he ultimately decided against, he predicted that Osama bin Laden would engineer a terrorist strike within the United States.”

Said Trump: “I predicted Osama bin Laden. In my book, I predicted terrorism. Because I can feel it, like I feel a good location, O.K.?”

Trump made the remarks before a crowd of nearly 10,000 in Tennessee and Bloomberg says he “gave the crowd exactly what it came for.”

“As a fervid debate over illegal immigration roils the GOP presidential primary, the terrorist attacks in Paris are pushing candidates to take a harder line—a tack some Republicans worry will hamstring their nominee in the general election,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Most Republicans seeking the White House have called for President Obama to shelve his plan to admit about 10,000 refugees of the Syrian civil war. The rhetoric escalated in the wake of reports linking one of the suicide bombers to a passport from a Syrian seeking asylum.”

Washington Post: “The rising unease among many Republicans toward Muslim migrants — and at times the Islamic faith in general — marks a stark and sudden shift in the 2016 campaign to issues of religion and national security. The debate could have significant implications for next year’s general election, in which GOP leaders had hoped to better perform with nonwhite voters than in past contests.”

A new UMass poll finds Donald Trump leading the GOP presidential race among likely voters with 31%, followed by Ben Carson at 22%, Ted Cruz at 13%, Marco Rubio at 9%, Carly Fiorina at 4%, John Kasich at 4%, Rand Paul at 4% and Jeb Bush at 3%.