“She can be easily beaten by her record”, said Mr Trump, adding that “Libya is a catastrophe”. He believes in amnesty strongly. Carson says those days are well behind him, but the source for this unbelievable change in the teenage Carson goes back to his beliefs as a Seventh Day Adventist.
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Rubio is also still largely an unknown name to people, with negative opinions outnumbering positive ones, 33 percent to 23 percent, but 4 in 10 still saying they don’t know enough to have an opinion. It’s a crooked business. “And I’m a very different person now”, said Carson… “They call them super-duper PACS”. And they put up millions and millions of dollars in these PACs. Super PACs – short for political action committees – are allowed to raise unlimited sums of money to support a candidate but are not allowed coordinate directly with the candidate’s campaign.
He’s relentlessly assailed his rivals, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, for being “low-energy”.
A Des Moines Register poll showed Carson leading Trump by 9 percentage points in the state.
The Republican nomination fight continues to be dominated by political newcomers Donald Trump and Ben Carson. “I would certainly want to get out”. Buoyed by Iowa’s powerful evangelical vote, he has surged into first place in the Republican race, the poll showed.
Calling Iraq the “Harvard of terrorism”, Trump said the country had turned into a “training ground for terrorists”.
“I’m Presbyterian. That’s down the middle of road”, he said. “That’s not who I am”, Carson, who is second in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings, said to host Chuck Todd.
“I don’t get into the mud pit”, Carson said.
Now Trump is hitting Carson on his demeanor, his policy positions and even raising questions about the neurosurgeon’s religion.
For his part, Carson said during an appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he won’t respond to Trump’s attacks. “He’s super low”, Trump said. “They would love him to be our nominee”.
“As people get to know me, they know that I’m not a hateful, pathological person like a few people try to make me out to be”, Carson said Sunday. The people are doing leaflets, they’re doing all this stuff.
“They’re essentially campaigning for him in Iowa, and that’s not what a PAC is supposed to be”. “I think Trump is more electable. He knows what it takes to be successful and that you have to work for it”. We already spend twice as much per capita on health care as many other countries in the world.
“We need strong energy”, Trump told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union”. That’s more than say so for any other Republican candidate, but far less than the 75 percent who say that Clinton could win the election if she is nominated on the Democratic side. In fact, Carson has been one of the only candidates to pull his punches against Trump, repeatedly refusing to criticize the billionaire who maintains his lead in the national polls.
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Trump will have an easy opportunity to go after Rubio for being a career politician who has never created jobs. He is seen as a climate sceptic and pro-lifer, although he will face a backlash from Republican conservatives who query his relatively soft approach – and that of Mr Bush – to illegal immigrants.
