Ben Carson, newly minted front-runner for the Iowa Republican presidential caucus, is pushing back against criticism from billionaire Donald Trump that he is “super low energy”. “I would certainly give an apology if I said something bad about it, but I didn’t”.
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He said he loves Iowa but he “honestly [thinks] the polls are wrong”. “Our military is going to be made much stronger”, Trump said.
“No, not at all”. But if you look at the context above it seems very, very clear to me that he is suggesting that there is something suspect about Carson’s religion. “But, no, not at all. You can get them out, just don’t hurt them”, Trump told security after the first couple interruptions, though he told the crowd his patience would wear thin the more it happened.
But as Trump and Carson prepare for another crucial Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colorado on Wednesday, the gloves are definitely coming off.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who previously trailed Trump in Iowa, led the GOP field with 28 percent of likely participants saying they’d support him. We had a packed house.
“I know nothing about it really”. And I just locked myself in the bathroom and started praying.
“You know, everybody has their own personality”. I accept the number. A CBS tracking poll on Sunday showed Trump and Carson tied in Iowa, each holding 27 percent support.
As he said earlier in the month, “If [polls] changed, and that went in a different direction and if I thought that I wasn’t going to win, like there are numerous people running, they’re not going to win, OK?”
Instead, a defiant Trump defended his decision to prop up his Presbyterian religion at a campaign stop while casting doubt on Carson’s Seventh-day Adventist faith.
‘I’m Presbyterian. Boy, that’s down the middle of the road, folks, in all fairness, ‘ Trump said in Florida.
“There is a national frustration and a national anger, I think that’s what we are hearing from Trump”, as well as fellow outsider candidates Carson and Carly Fiorina, said R. Bruce Josten of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “I just don’t know about”.
“As a teenager, I would go after people with rocks, and bricks, and baseball bats, and hammers”, he continued.
“I think everybody at the time knew that it was simply homophobic legislation”, Sanders said. “That’s not going to change, either”.
In the case of Ben Carson, he also said so. “I will be a great unifier for our country”.
“I’m a private citizen – I think we still got that right…”
“I wrote about societies, before tyranny was able to take root, that the tyrants tried to rid the people of the mechanism to defend themselves”.
Carson, who has gotten high marks for likability from grass-roots Republican Party activists, continues to struggle to explain his policy positions.
“My personal interactions with him have shown him to be a gentleman”, Carson said.
“Ben is extremely weak, as you know, on illegal immigration and you can’t have that now. He’s paid people far too much”. “They totally control – Carson is controlled by his PAC”. (For myself, I could easily imagine a President Trump ending up like second term Arnold Schwarzenegger.) So if Trump’s the worst case scenario, what about Carson?
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“I’m OK with the savings accounts”.
