Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has unleashed a stunning verbal assault on his nearest competitor Ben Carson, saying that United States voters were “stupid” to believe the doctor’s moving personal narrative and comparing him to a paedophile. These nights are typically defined by just the sort of woe-is-me martyrdom that Trump displayed in Iowa on Thursday. “God heard my deep cries of anguish”. But with all lines of political logic in this election cycle having been long since scrambled, it was unclear how the wild words would hurt – or help – the combatants.
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The tenor is a change for Trump, who was mostly polite at Tuesday evening’s GOP debate.
Criminal or liar, the video asks, concluding: “We don’t need either as president”.
“I said that if you’re a child molester, a sick puppy, a child molester, there’s no cure for that – there’s only one cure and we don’t want to talk about that cure, that’s the ultimate cure”, Trump told an Iowa audience. “Now, if you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that, folks… a child molester, there’s no cure for that”. “Pathological? There’s no cure”.
“Time-and-time again, the Republican candidates in this field have refused to stand up to Trump and his repulsive policy ideas, and instead have chosen to imitate his antics”, DNC spokesman Eric Walker said Friday. Should Trump fixate on you and take the flame-thrower out to light you up, it’s very possible he could destroy your candidacy in his I’ve-got-nothing-left-to-lose strategy.
Bill Whalen of the Hoover Institute at Stanford University hailed the advent of “silly season” in Republican politics.
“So, I say, what the hell have we come to?”
“I don’t think there’s anything normal about politics in America right now”, Rugola said. Practice what you preach, Brother Trump, and preach what you know.
On Marco Rubio: “Weak on illegal immigration… like, weak like a baby”.
Trump-friendly Republican voters might tolerate (or even delight in) attacks on figures like Rubio and Jeb Bush-mainstream politicians who in their eyes represent an untrustworthy establishment. [Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images]If Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s polls were to ever drop off a cliff in the future, the Wall Street Journal has analyzed who might claim the lead.
Footnote: Carson’s reported response about Trump was “Pray for him”. He also asked “How stupid are the people from Iowa?”
“How stupid are the people of Iowa?”
Christie is wrapping up a three-day campaign swing through Iowa.
“It’s not a smart strategy”, Hagle said, laughing.
“He said he has pathological disease”, he said. Like Carson, Rubio’s life story checks all the requisite social mobility boxes (and, like Carson’s, it seems to have been at least somewhat embellished).
“This is the Trump theory on war”. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
Are Iowans dumb to believe Carson?
The last candidate to win the White House without OH was Democrat John F. Kennedy in 1960. And given the degree to which this polling has been stable since the summer, I’m willing to say that they have a real chance in the primary. “I’m surprised that my material is better than theirs”.
Thursday night in Fort Dodge, I’m betting quite a few did. “There’s too much panic on the Republican side”.
But it was a different story on Thursday as Trump turned brusque.
“I expect that kind of thing. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone”. Who knows who he will try to take down with him, who knows what preposterous policies he will saddle his party with before he leaves the stage, in addition to his pledge to deport “humanely” 11 million people. “Believe me”, he said.
But if Romney wanted to be running, Stevens said, he would be in the race.
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“I think the lesson here is that Iowa and New Hampshire can not come soon enough”.
