Donald Trump: Carson’s ‘Going to Have to Explain A Lot’

“There’s got to be a scandal”. “They are getting desperate”. Certainly”, he said. “But it is important to me.

Carson has every reason to expect that what for nearly any other candidate would be considered negative attention will help him.

For one thing, rising mortality is a uniquely American phenomenon – yet America has both a much weaker welfare state and a much stronger role for traditional religion and values than any other advanced country….Life expectancy is high and rising in the Northeast and California, where social benefits are highest and traditional values weakest.

“We’ve obviously had a variety of controversial statements”, admitted Doug Watts, Carson’s campaign spokesman. And so, you know, we have to really start asking ourselves, ‘What have we taken out of our lives in America?

CNN reported it could not find friends or confidants to corroborate his story, told as part of his widely read autobiography, “Gifted Hands”, of unsuccessfully stabbing a close friend when he was a teenager.

The Greenberg Quinlan Rosner survey found that only 42 percent of millennials were extremely interested in the 2016 election, compared to 71 percent of seniors who expressed extreme interest in the 2016 election.

In a GOP debate last month, Carson said it was “absolutely absurd” to say he had a formal relationship with the medical supplement company Mannatech.

Carson and his campaign forcefully reject any suggestion he has been less than completely truthful.

“For people that try to take this and twist it and make it seem like something dishonest, that seems like dishonesty itself”, Carson said, adding that he only had enough money to apply to Yale, so he could not have applied to West Point.

“Will you do that?”

Trump said Carson’s description of his childhood temper as “pathological” is disturbing.

“He would have done it if they asked him”, Trump said of Carson.

Because, you know, there are a lot of people are very threatened, and then, you know, they have seen the recent head-to-head polling against Hillary and how well I do.

So you’ve got millions of old people whose entire healthcare existence rests on Medicare – he wants to get rid of it. That’s of a few significance of me, actually moreimportant that what may or may not have happened 40 or 50 years ago.

Carson (33%) leads Trump (24%) among the almost two-thirds of voters who call themselves evangelical Christians. “And why are we in the process of throwing away all of our values and principles for the sake of political correctness?'” Carson said. “What they’re hearing is a prejudicial tone against overt faith”.

“What does it say about people who immediately jump on the bandwagon if they hear something bad rather than waiting and finding out what the truth is?”