IN Focus: Rep. Carson blasts Trump’s controversial proposal

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (R) is greeted on stage by fellow Republican candidate Ted Cruz.

So, perhaps “constructing” a second best seller might not be a bad option for Trump… even if the gnomish and minuscule Republican Party elders deny him the respect he “humbly” thinks he deserves.

“I didn’t do this for polls so I don’t even care what the polls say”, Trump said in an appearance yesterday on CNN’s “State of the Union With Jake Tapper”.

To much applause during the first GOP debate, Trump wrote off a laundry list of offensive comments he had made to and about women by saying, “I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct”. “I signed a pledge”.

Trump “is reminding us in that process that people are really upset and they’re really scared”, Rubio said. “Sorry I did this to you, but youre going to have to get used to it.”. Several of the attendees acknowledged that the party needs to prepare for the possibility of a brokered convention in which no candidate secures enough delegates to clinch the nomination, according to the report, a situation that has not occurred since 1976. That’s just impressive — moral high ground is generally untrodden territory for the Republican Party these days.

Republican US presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd at the conclusion of a presidential forum in Aiken, South Carolina December 12, 2015.

While the Republican Party has been criticized for employing “dog whistle” politics since the days of Lee Atwater, Trump has thrown out the whistle and begun waving red meat to the dangerously ethnocentric hordes that lurk in the Republican base.

A recent Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa poll shows Cruz 10 points ahead of Trump in the Hawkeye State. Trump said Cruz doesn’t have the right temperament or the right judgment to be president, and has acted in the Senate “like a little bit of a maniac”.

“One of the reasons that I got into this is because I heard the frustration in the people who are so exhausted of backroom deals”, Carson said on ABC’s “This Week”. “I think there’s an appeal there but what concerns me is that if we haven’t studied history and the demagoguery that has taken place throughout the decades… that’s not what this country is all about”. After NBC, NASCAR and other corporations ended business arrangements with Trump after he called Mexicans rapists and murderers, Trump decried those companies for taking the “very sad position of being politically correct even though they are wrong in terms of what is good for our country”. He said he would be “out of here” if those types of deals remained.

“Well, you know, poll numbers go up and down”, he said. When I say this – I’m running to do the right thing.

Donald Trump, it has come to our attention that you want to ban all Muslims from entering the United States.

A voter named Jeff described Trump as “smart like a fox” and said he’s “intentionally playing the media” by making inflammatory statements.

Plus, he said, the voters were, “more salty in their language than any focus group I have ever moderated”.