Carson: I’ll leave GOP if there are ‘back room deals’

“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”. “That wasn’t the deal I made”. “But he signed the pledge based on everybody playing by the rules”.

“I have made a decision to postpone my trip and to schedule my meeting with Netanyahu at a later date after I become President of the United States”, he wrote on his Twitter account.

On Tuesday, nine GOP hopefuls meet in Las Vegas looking to wrangle over what to do about the threat of terrorism and who has the right temperament and judgment to lead the nation.

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. Cruz had 31 percent support; Trump with 21 percent.

“I have no intention of running as an Independent, but I certainly don’t want to be part of corruption”, Carson said.

He acknowledged that Mr Carson, like Mr Trump and the rest of Republican field, signed a pledge not to launch a third-party bid. When asked if that means he would drop out of the race for the Republican nomination, Carson told ABC News on Friday he would “leave that up to you to speculate”.

“It’s about time that somebody spoke up as to radicalism”.

A average of national polls shows that Trump leads his GOP rivals with 30.4 percent.

Trump, the billionaire businessman and reality television star whose run has so far been aided by his position as a political outsider, said he’s “disappointed” at recent reports that party leaders are discussing the potential for a brokered convention in response to his rise. 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.

Carson said he’s spoken to Priebus and was told that the meeting was a routine one and there are no back-room deals taking place.

“Mr. Trump is a very smart man, which makes his rhetoric that much more unsafe”, said Carson, one of two Muslims serving in Congress. “He knows what he’s doing, he knows what he’s saying… he’s speaking to discontent, he’s speaking to disillusionment, he’s speaking to people who feel they don’t have any hope…”

“Donald Trump seems to overstate things”, said Coats.

The retired neurosurgeon has said he would not consider running as an Independent.

The hacker group known as Anonymous has set its sights on Donald Trump after the Republican presidential candidate floated a ban on Muslims entering the United States.