Republicans view Donald Trump as most electable

Donald Trump, long-time Republican primary front-runner, slipped into second place in two respected Iowa polls recently. He then made a contrast to Carson’s denomination: “I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about, I just don’t know about”. “I just don’t know about”.

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During another interview Sunday, on ABC’s “This Week,” Trump said he doesn’t feel he needs to apologize to Carson.

Tapper asked Trump if his presidency would result in an era of bipartisanship.

Trump didn’t get more specific beyond explaining that he plans to lower taxes and renegotiate trade deals. “I think that would be a fair way to do it. In terms of them becoming citizens later on down the road if they’ve done things the right way, we the American people will decide what the criteria for that ought to be”. Trump maintains that he only “counterpunches”, but Carson has not been making Trump a focal point of his campaigning in recent weeks. Similarly, Jon Huntsman’s third-place finish in New Hampshire in 2012 was a campaign-ending defeat precisely because party actors know that a larger-than-usual percentage of New Hampshire Republicans are moderates or even liberals. Those likely to attend the February 1 Republican caucuses also most commonly picked him as the candidate from their party most in over his or her head, with 24 percent giving him that unflattering designation.Carson, another political rookie up against a field that includes numerous past and present senators and governors, wins the highest marks for being most pragmatic, most electable, most presidential and most trustworthy to have his finger on the button of the nation’s nuclear arsenal.

Trump added that Carson travels to Iowa “very little”. “You know, I really refuse to get in the mud pit”.

“(Bush is) a low-energy person.

“I have plenty of energy”.

“Ben is extremely weak, as you know, on illegal immigration and you can’t have that now”.

“Ben Carson has never created a job in his life (well, maybe a nurse)”, Trump tweeted of the retired pediatric neurosurgeon, a fellow political newcomer. Marco Rubio. There’s a drop-off among the rest of the GOP’s 2016 crowded class. None of the other candidates is viewed as electable in a general election by more than half of Republican voters. And if he reacts badly to a disappointing finish in Iowa (see Dean, Howard) there could be a carryover effect in New Hampshire and/or elsewhere.

Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute, said in a statement Monday that Carson’s new front-running status in Iowa will serve as a major test of hid durability.

“I get along with everybody”.