Ben Carson and Marco Rubio, trying mightily to survive and thrive in the unrelenting spotlight that surging presidential candidates must endure, face a huge new test at Tuesday’s Republican debate.
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The retired neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate claimed 10,000 donations each day of the week in a tweet.
The Journal’s point in its editorial this morning identifies another party which has a legitimate interest in finding out if Carson is a flawed candidate: Republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton. “My job is to call you out when you’re unfair, and I’m going to continue to do that”, he said. “If you’ve got a real scandal, if you’ve got something that’s really important, let’s talk about that”.
“I guess a book was written, I don’t know where this all came from, but a book was written before he ran for politics, but he said he has pathological disease in the book”, Trump said during an appearance on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos”. There was no such psychology course. There was no such scam.
“Why could we find it and they could not find it?” “No stories in the Yale Daily News mention a course named Perceptions 301 either”, the Wall Street Journal reported. “It’s almost an us-versus-them thing”.
Carson said Sunday the scrutiny he is receiving is unlike any faced by Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton or President Barack Obama. Oh, well, you said this when you were in kindergarten.
“Give me a break. I prefer to talk about important issues”. His campaign communications director, Doug Watts, said he believed Carson was referring to Kyle Cheney, who filed the report on West Point for Politico, which later clarified its reporting.
U.S. Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, October 9, 2015. Rand Paul said Monday. They were very impressed with my incredible rise to city executive officer faster than anyone had ever done that before, and said that, we would be able to get you a full scholarship to West Point. And I said, that’s wonderful. “And I was very flattered by that”. But talking to other people and saying, “See we can’t find them” – I mean this is just stupid, and I mean if our media is no better than investigating than that, it’s sick. And that’s what I said. Putting up a candidate with a fatal flaw is a huge mistake and one GOP voters should want to avoid. I have tremendous admiration, obviously, for West Point, which is why I included that story, and tremendous admiration for the people who serve in our country. Trump has questioned Carson several times about a childhood story in his autobiography “Gifted Hands” in which Carson described once trying to stab a friend or relative.
Politico published a story Friday claiming that Carson’s campaign had admitted that he had lied about acceptance and admission into West Point. He also claimed that after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, he hid a few white students inside a biology lab at the Southwestern High in Detroit to protect them from hate attacks, but The Wall Street Journal found no confirmation of that story, according to NBC News.
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“With what’s going on with this election, I’ve never seen anything like it. People are getting away with murder”, said Trump, betraying his first signs of exasperation at Carson’s success in the polls. All the time I wrote my answers, I prayed for God to help me figure out what to put down. “I would not be anxious to have a commander in chief who acted that way”.
