“If that is the case, then, you know, I’m out of here”, Carson said on ABC’s This Week.
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“I’ve been hearing about these closed-door meetings and I don’t like that”, Trump told CNN’s “State of the Union With Jake Tapper”.
Other candidates have been asked about their loyalty to the pledge in recent days as they repudiate Trump’s proposal to ban entry to the U.S.to all foreign Muslims. Speaking on the program “Politicking with Larry King”, she declared, “They are willing to go to extremes”. They’re going to have problems, but I hope it’s not going to be that way.
Carson heads to Las Vegas, Nevada on Tuesday for the last GOP presidential primary debate of 2015. Cruz had 31 percent support; Trump with 21 percent. Trump said the Texas senator doesn’t have the right temperament or the right judgment to be president and that he has acted in the Senate “like a little bit of a maniac”.
“There is no way that I, or anybody else who is running, is an expert in every area”, he said, and pointed to the way chief executives run their companies.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tonight said his supporters are the “noisy majority” and the GOP establishment won’t be able to derail his candidacy if he starts rolling in 2016 with a victory in Iowa’s lead-off Caucuses.
After rocketing to the front of the Republican pack in the race for president, Trump has stayed there for months with a brash approach that has captivated a healthy slice of the GOP electorate. Indeed, the only time the state has missed the eventual nominee since 1980 is last time around, when Republicans rejected Mitt Romney in favor of Newt Gingrich, during the former Speaker’s brief moment in the presidential sun.
An independent or third-party run by either Trump or Carson would be a nightmare for Republican leaders.
Presidential hopeful Ben Carson on Friday threatened to leave the Republican Party if he finds any manipulation in the nomination process, reacting to reports that GOP leaders were considering 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. On ABC, Carson stated Republican Party bash chairman Reince Priebus assured him in that it was a routine meeting & in that the party bash has no intention of slicing a back room deal. Cruz said referring to Trump and Carson. “We’ll certainly be keeping a close eye on things”.
But Trump’s strength among a committed subset of GOP voters, the historically large field and the way Republicans rewrote rules after the 2012 election to try to give a front runner an edge, may have backfired on them.
The tea party insurgency of the 2010 and 2014 midterm elections succeeded in removing some long-term establishment congressional Republicans in the primaries while simultaneously delivering control of Congress to the GOP in the general elections.
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John Kasich said he does not hear people in early voting states talking about whether to keep Muslims out of the U.S. Ted Cruz earned the next highest mark, with 56 percent calling him very or somewhat decisive. Trump has gone after his other opponents gleefully and viciously, panning Jeb Bush as low-energy, Ben Carson as “pathological” and Marco Rubio as a lightweight who drinks too much water. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie returns to the main stage after a downgrade in the November.
