Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who taped Sunday an episode of Iowa Press, an Iowa Public Television program, was asked if he agreed with Carson’s statements on Muslims being president.
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Supporters, visitors and the just plain curious milled about the island and Grand Hotel; some wearing T-shirts emblazoned with their candidate of choice, others passing out swag and brochures, as talk of 2016 was all the buzz. “When we do better, people who live in the shadows can not be ignored”, he told Michigan Republicans. John Kasich, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and Kentucky Sen.
“To me this really means he is not qualified to be president of the United States”, Hooper said.
Returning to his criticism, Bush said, “His problem isn’t the fact that he was born here, or what his faith is, his problem is he’s a progressive liberal that tears down anybody that disagrees with him”.
While Walker was juggling his schedule, five other Republican candidates took the opportunity to speak with Michigan’s leading Republican Party leaders and elected officials gathered on picturesque Mackinaw Island, which sits between the state’s two peninsulas. He says Kasich is a “Midwestern guy” who knows Michigan isn’t “flyover country”.
“If you assume we want to proceed heading in the identical primary course – simply sort of fiddle across the edges – then I ain’t your man”, he informed the lunch viewers of about 2,000 Saturday.
Bush was alluding to an episode on Thursday in which rival Donald Trump declined to correct a questioner who called Obama “Muslim” and “not even an American”.
Activists chanting “We want more debates!” drowned out DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s speech several times at the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s convention in Manchester on Saturday morning.
“All I was trying to say is I’m glad sometimes in the middle of the speed of what I’m doing that I can slow down and honor people who sometimes we run past very quickly”, the Republican presidential candidate told reporters after speaking at a luncheon during a Michigan GOP leadership conference.
Kasich spoke at the conference earlier Saturday, touting his experience in Congress, the private sector and as a two-time gubernatorial winter in a battleground presidential state.
He tweeted Saturday that for the first time in his life he has “caused controversy by NOT saying something”.
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Hundreds of Republicans are flocking to Mackinac Island this weekend.
