U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during a news conference in Chicago, Illinois, on Dec, 10, 2015.
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“If they don’t treat me with a certain amount of decorum and respect, if they don’t treat me as by far the front-runner, if the playing field is not level, then certainly all options are open”, Trump told CNN’s Don Lemon. That wasn’t the deal I made. They were supposed to be honorable, so we’re going to find out.
“We have got to stop the problem”. He had more than double the support of his nearest rivals in the online poll of 481 Republicans. Ted Cruz and others, have competed for a fractured party base.
A Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll released on Saturday showed Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, has surged ahead of Trump in the campaign for the Iowa caucuses.
“Conservative Republicans are better served by casting out a demagogue like Donald Trump and, regrettably, the supporters who may follow him, in order to clarify and broaden electoral support for conservatism among new voters in the long term”, said Rory Cooper, a Republican strategist.
Carson said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” he entered the race because he heard from voters who were frustrated by “back room deals of subterfuge and dishonesty”.
So, will he win the GOP nomination, assuming the National Republican Party doesn’t pull the plug on his nomination with a brokered convention? A person who attended the dinner confirmed to Bloomberg that it took place, and that Priebus, members of Congress, establishment lobbyists and others have held similar discussions for weeks. “We’ll certainly be keeping a close eye on things”.
Trump has not ruled out a third-party run, despite having pledged not to do so in September.
Down the block and across the street were about 200 liberal activists with homemade signs collectively labeling Trump as a fear-mongering bigot using Muslims as a scapegoat.
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A Middle Eastern department store chain has dropped Trump Home, a lifestyle line owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, after he made comments last week calling “for a total and complete shutdown of the Muslims entering the United States”.
