Nevermind, let’s get started: You all are losing to a somnolent retiree who very recently was spending entire days babbling nonsense about the Holocaust to anyone who’d listen, in Iowa, the state that holds the first delegate contest in the nation.
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But a new Trump emerged Tuesday night, at a rally in Sioux City, Iowa, that marked his first return to the state since his poll numbers dipped. I read a couple things today from places I’m not familiar with so I’m not gonna quote them to you. The soft-spoken Carson has refused to counterattack, but expect him to defend himself and explain his positions in the face of mounting pressure. In interviews, though, he accepted the polls’ results.
According to a recent Bloomberg/Des Moines Register poll of likely Iowa Republican voters, 80% said that they agreed with his comparison of Obamacare to slavery.
“His only hope of staying competitive is to entertain voters with his provocateur-in-chief routine right up until Election Day”, said Josh Holmes, a former adviser to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. “I mean, he’s the strongest man for the job, I feel, then he has to do what he has to do”. “But I don’t like being second, second is awful to me”. Now, with slowing poll numbers, Fiorina is again looking to the debate stage for a burst of energy.
“One of the reasons you don’t brag about your standing in the polls is because when it goes down, you look silly attacking the polls you were praising not so long ago”, said Eric Fehrstrom, a political communications veteran who served as senior adviser during GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s 2012 bid. “This takes away a few of the incentive for the candidates to go hail Mary and go after him”, Hale said. Trump, meanwhile, has been anything but the typical candidate.
There was one sign of encouragement for Trump in the poll. “Thousands of people dying, waiting for a doctor”, he said. For Trump, this is the week from hell as numerous polls are confirming a significant drop in excitement and support for the controversial billionaire businessman.
Among the other participants are Florida Senator Marco Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Cruz. “People don’t want to elect a political operative”.
“If the Republican Party nominates Trump or even Carson, who I have a lot of respect for as an individual… we’re going to lose to [Democratic front-runner] Hillary Clinton”, said Mankiw, economics professor at Harvard University.
“We need to have a serious debate over whether we’re going to get stuck at 2 percent or grow much faster”, said Hubbard, dean of the Columbia Business School. “As president, I can guarantee it. As Trump I can say, ‘I’ll probably be able to pull it off anyway'”.
“He just needs to find ways to reestablish his credibility as a victor”.
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Roger Stone, a former adviser who has known the candidate for decades, blamed Carson’s soaring numbers on aggressive early-state advertising, and said they show it’s time for Trump to open his wallet finally and get on the air.
