And the Wall Street Journal said it could not confirm anecdotes told by Mr Carson about his high school and college years.
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“I think we ought to have total transparency, and money ought to go directly to campaigns”, he continued.
Bush got a big political slap on the back Wednesday with the endorsement from Dole, a former Republican US senator from Kansas who twice won Iowa’s first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses in 1988 and 1996 who backed the ex-Florida governor’s bid in the 2016 GOP presidential sweepstakes that opens February 1 in Iowa. He also was chairman in 2012.
Walker spokesman Tom Evenson said the governor doesn’t have any plans to make an endorsement at this time. “I liked that he wants to put more money into the military”.
An RNC spokesman didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Walker ended his own presidential bid in September.
Bush, who has struggled to explain his policy proposals in a down-to-earth way, needs a steady performance to calm his supporters.
It’s the most national attention Walker has received since he pulled the plug on his campaign on September 21 after finding himself at the bottom of the polls, despite once being a front-runner. The past seven days have offered many examples of the latter.
A day after the fourth Republican presidential debate, the candidates campaigned in early voting states and faced questions about their debate performances.
Rubio countered by saying that Bush was only criticizing him because “we’re running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me will help you”.
As Mr Carson has risen in the polls, however, he has faced a flurry of questions about his biography, which has been central to his connection with voters.
Search engine data shows that GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is the most searched candidate out of either the Republican or Democrat Parties.
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When he dropped out, Walker encouraged other candidates to follow his lead so that the party could coalesce behind a “positive, conservative alternative to the current frontrunner”, who at the time was Trump.
