Carson Shrugs Off Attack by GOP Rival Trump

Jindal, who repeatedly lobbed insults at Christie at Tuesday’s debate in Milwaukee, didn’t waste anytime going after Trump.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose campaign slogan is “telling it like it is” said there are a few things presidential candidates just should not say.

At one point, Trump walked away from the podium and flipped his belt buckle up and down to ridicule what Carson has described as a key event in his life: that Carson, as a boy, once tried but failed to stab someone only to have the knife broken by a belt buckle.

Carson, meanwhile, told reporters in SC the he would not engage with Trump on a personal level.

The fallout from Trump’s nasty broadside reverberated in Orlando where Trump and Carson, the two front-runners, were among a host of candidates speaking at the Florida Republican Party’s Sunshine Summit.

“He said he has pathological disease”. Actually, I think they kill you…. “Pathological? There’s no cure”, Trump said.

With a year left to the 2016 presidential election, Trump was ahead of Carson on social media sentiment, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Iowans: “How stupid” are you? Having to put up with all these “stupid” people and “losers” must be trying.

The Donald wasn’t done yet, though – far from it. At his rally Thursday night in Iowa, during an epic 90-plus-minute stump speech, Trump upped the ante on grotesque sexual imagery, when he hinted at a literal castration of very bad people like Carson.

By the end of the speech, he appeared to have a different idea, though, floating the idea of moving to Iowa himself and buying a farm.

“If you’re pathological, there’s no cure for that”, Trump told supporters. “It’s sad in many ways because we’re talking about so many negative topics, but in certain ways it’s attractive”.

“The notion that a pathology is something that can not be treated or cured doesn’t make much sense”, wrote John Hibbing, a professor of political science and psychology at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in an e-mail. Last month, he retweeted a tweet insinuating that pesticides on corn had caused voters to go insane; he blamed the tweet on an intern.

As Trump’s rant continued, campaign workers with microphones who were supposed to take questions from the audience instead took a seat, cheering on their boss here and there.

“I know more about ISIS than the generals do”, he said.

“I’d bomb the s– out of them”, he said. That’s right. I’d blow up the pipes; I’d blow up the refineries. I would blow up every single inch.

“All I know is that first, you’ve got to get mad….”

He has spent recent days attacking Rubio over immigration, a clear indication that he is planning on sweeping up Trump’s support base, and that he considers Rubio a more significant threat than the man once expected to be the front-runner, pool old Jeb Bush.

Mr Trump attacked Dr Carson over those comments.

“The rest of the field still is wishing on a star that Trump and Carson are going to self-destruct”, said Eric Fehrnstrom, a former adviser to 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney.