Carson Down, Cruz Up in New Iowa Poll

Colbert countered that claim and said that it was not true, but then again, is anything the Trump says true given his recent history of making unsubstantiated rhetorical statements in official settings? “We already have the infrastructure in the early states, up to and including the SEC primary states, to continue earning delegates long after February 1”.

The retired pediatric neurosurgeon has shrugged off a series of controversies over the past two weeks by claiming that the press simply misunderstood what he said – or by accusing reporters of deliberately miscasting his remarks.

Jeb Bush made a decision to “actively explore” a 2016 presidential bid after conversations with his family over Thanksgiving, he said in a Facebook post Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. In the article I wrote yesterday, many of you wrote in the comments section that you saw the same news video. “And I would approve more than that”.

“I saw people getting together and in fairly large numbers celebrating as the World Trade Center was coming down, killing thousands of people”, he said.

Cohen said Trump demands to be “treated fairly”, and said that even if the Republican National Committee isn’t directly behind the negative advertising, it could be held responsible. The Hawkeye State poll has Trump at 25%; Cruz at 23% and Carson at 18% — a drop of 10 points since the previous month’s survey for Carson.

Carson: Well, you know, there are going to be people who respond inappropriately to virtually everything.

Donald Trump is not amusing (at least not intentionally so), but boy does he make Stephen Colbert’s job easy. “I didn’t know that they had an agenda behind the question”. “You know what? There’s nothing wrong with an apology, but you have to be wrong. The ample news footage of celebrations he saw was from the Middle East”, said a statement from Carson’s camp.

Trump over the weekend and through Monday repeatedly said that he saw on TV American Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on September 11, 2001, as the Twin Towers fell, a claim that fact-checking publications have called false.

“I don’t recall that”.

Still, Trump maintained that he had predicted that late Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden would try to attack the U.S. He said his forecast is written in his book titled “The America We Deserve“, which was published in 2000.

STEVE FULOP: I think it’s shameful that he’s politicizing 9/11.

Q: Yes. Can you expand on that? I really think that would be a stretch. But in doing so he rewrites the record.