“How many times can this keep happening?” His candidacy has attracted legions of evangelicals who find inspiration in his up-from-nowhere personal story, which is both aspirational and faith-based.
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His heroics as a surgeon are proof of his intellect. Yet his recent stumbles highlight a vulnerability: that even a stellar medical career can’t easily overcome the rigors of a presidential campaign.
“If you read the front page of The NY Times today, they said about Ben Carson that he’s unable to understand foreign policy”, Trump said.
Trump took time to ridicule Carson over an interview the retired neurosurgeon gave Fox News Sunday.
In last week’s Republican debate, speaking of the turmoil in Syria, Mr. Carson said that “the Chinese are there”.
“The secular progressive movement in this country does not like Judeo-Christian values”, Carson said.
Carson received a warm South Alabama welcome as he took the stage.
“Carson I’m not so anxious about”, Fergus Cullen, who once headed the New Hampshire Republican Party, told Politico.
“We need to immediately declare a halt to any plans to bring refugees that may have been infiltrated by ISIS to the United States”, Sen.
“During time of a racial crisis, Black voters tend to reject the Republican Party”, said Wright Rigueur, a professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Though controversial, Carson is not entirely unpopular among African-American voters, as they hold him at an nearly 35 percent favorability rating, according to The Economist/YouGov survey in October. You know, there will be multiple phone calls.
He “not an adviser”, Carson said, adding that Armstrong Williams, his longtime business manager, also “has nothing to do with my campaign”.
However, he and Carson have been close friends for years.
Two Syrian families were forced to travel to CT after the governor of IN, where they were initially due to be settled, said they would not be welcome there.
“Being responsible for the September 11 attacks, what happened right there really didn’t require a great deal of sophistication because we were not paying attention”, Carson argued.
“I wasn’t interested in answering that question”.
More recently, the Carson Campaign has shown its ability to look bad extends to domestic concerns too. “You’re going to have to be a lot more sophisticated than that now”. “This is the kind of thing that they do”, he said, drawing laughs and applause. “He’s not ideal, he will be flawless but he continues to surround himself with people who will enhance his foreign policy credentials”.
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“I don’t know – I just thought he has the ability to stand up there an say what he wants, and he just wants to touch the hearts of the people here – just ordinary people”. “As a military leader I would be privileged to call him my commander-in-chief”.
