When presidential contender Ben Carson takes the stage for Wednesday night’s Republican debate in Colorado, he will no longer have to contend with a search-engine trick that linked his good name to a group of unabashed boy molesters.
Salon gropes for a way to understand the GOP primary process.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” host Chris Matthews and guests Jonathan Capehart of The Washington Post, Michelle Bernard of The Bernard Center and Liz Mair, a Republican strategist, went after Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Mike Huckabee for
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Hardball,” MSNBC analyst and Mother Jones DC editor David Corn called into question 2016 Republican presidential nomination contender Ben Carson for his faith, noting that he is a Seventh Day Adventist and said that particular denomination of Christianity
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson defended a prior statement calling for the redistribution of education funding in an interview broadcast on Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” but he maintained that he only supports Title I funding,
Republican presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson’s Google search results have been manipulated to prominently link his name to the “North American Man-Boy Love Association” (NAMBLA), a pedophile advocacy group.The top search result for Ben Carson on Google is his Wikipedia page, after sponsored links and news. The NAMBLA Wikipedia page is featured as the first related link on Carson’s Wikipedia blurb, just below his name.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that fellow Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson “wants to abolish Medicare,” “a program that’s worked” on Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Trump, in response to a question on why people should vote for
Dr. Ben Carson is taking the strongest pro-life position possible, declaring he would “ultimately love” to see the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision overturned, and abortion made illegal nationwide, with very carefully-defined exceptions where the life of the mother is at stake.
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump was asked about his deteriorating lead in the polls to his opponent, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson. Trump said that now Carson was a front-runner, it was likely
Columnist Charles Krauthammer criticized Republican presidential candidate former Florida Governor Jeb Bush as “petulant,” adding, “you can see why [Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben] Carson’s running about three times ahead of where Bush is,” and that with Republican presidential candidate
Monday on ABC’s “The View” while discussing Republican candidate Dr. Ben Carson coming out against abortion including in cases of rape and incest this weekend on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” two of the show’s co-host called Carson “despicable” and “pathetic.”
Donald Trump dropped 5 points, and Ben Carson gained 6 points, according to the latest large-scale national poll by produced by Morning Consult. Trump dropped from 40 percent in mid-October, down to 35 percent support, while Carson zoomed up from 14 percent to 20 percent this weekend.
In an appearance on C-SPAN last week, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), a candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, was asked if he would host NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” as his opponent Donald Trump is next month. Unlike another one
Dr. Ben Carson responded on Sunday to attacks from Donald Trump, who has called him “super-low energy,” stating on Meet the Press that he may be soft-spoken, but people should not mistake that for a lack of energy.
In an appearance on the so-called “pancakes and politics” town hall series from New Hampshire and broadcasted on NBC’s “Today,” Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump dismissed recent polling that suggested he had fallen behind in the early primary state of
In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Dr. Ben Carson, a contender for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination, responded to a claim from party front-runner Donald Trump and others describing him as low-energy. According to Carson, he
The people of Guatemala have just elected a complete outsider as their nation’s next president, selecting in a landslide election television comedian Jimmy Morales to represent them.
Dr. Ben Carson would “relish” the opportunity to take on Hillary Clinton—whom he dubbed the “poster child” of dishonesty—in a general election. On Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot channel 125, Carson, who is now the frontrunner in Iowa, told host and Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that a contest versus Clinton would be the “most clear-cut election in history.”
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd pressed Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson on his plan to use the Department of Education to police universities and colleges political speech and deny funding in cases of “extreme political
Seven out of ten “Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters” say businessman Donald Trump is the GOP’s “strongest general election candidate,” based upon a newly released Associated Press-GfK poll. In effect, the GOP’s Washington-based political class is completely out of touch with GOP voters.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he wasn’t trying to insult his rival Ben Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist religion explaining that it was his intention to say he wasn’t “familiar” with it. When asked
On the October 25 airing of Meet the Press, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson stressed the important role an armed citizenry plays in preventing tyranny, saying, the government finds it “much more difficult to dominate people who are armed.”
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson likened abortion to slavery and said he is not on favor of exceptions for cases of rape of and insect. When host Chuck Todd asked, “Does life begin
GOP establishment pick Jeb Bush may have raised $13.3 million for his struggling campaign, but only seven percent of that total came from small donors pledging under $200, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump argued fellow GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is “very, very weak on immigration” in an interview aired on Friday’s “AC360” on CNN. Trump stated of Carson, “he’s very, very weak on immigration, and I’m very
In an interview with Bloomberg Politics Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, 2016 GOP presidential contender Ben Carson reacted to his new leading position according to a poll in Iowa and discussed the possibility of the current front-runner Donald Trump going
In an interview on New York City WABC radio’s “Rita Cosby Show” on Thursday, GOP presidential contender Ben Carson explained the threats he has faced during his campaign and how he and his staff have taken “reasonable precautions” to confront those issues.
Hard on the heels of yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll comes a survey from the Des Moines Register that confirms Ben Carson is now the leading Republican candidate in Iowa, with Donald Trump slipping into second place, and Senator Ted Cruz nudging ahead of Senator Marco Rubio for third.
Ben Carson is now leading national frontrunner Donald Trump by nine points in Iowa with 28 percent of the vote, according to the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll released this morning. That’s up 10 points from the same poll conducted in August. Trump comes in second with 19 percent, while Sen. Ted Cruz gets third place with 10 percent support.
Ex-House Majority Leader Eric Cantor – swept out by the Tea Party-backed Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) – is now on the attack against it and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, saying voters have an unrealistic expectation from a Republican majority in Congress and Trump is “absolutely not” a credible presidential nominee for the GOP.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) is running for speaker “the right way,” “I’m not sure that there’s anything useful to be gained” by criticizing former President George W. Bush for 9/11, and Democratic presidential
The latest poll from ABC News and the Washington Post has Donald Trump still firmly in the lead at 33 percent, Ben Carson ticking up a bit in second place at 22 percent, and Senator Marco Rubio likewise edging up a few points for third place at 10 percent.
In a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the majority of Americans said they see the Democrat Party as “outside the mainstream” on guns. Ironically, almost an identical majority view the Republican Party as “within the mainstream” as it pertains to guns.
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson says that “logic and common sense” make clear it’s time to talk about eliminating gun free zones, not guns.
Alastair Campbell, who used to be the spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, has give his verdict on potential Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson. Mr. Campbell (pictured above), who used to be
GOP frontrunner Donald Trump reached 41 percent approval in the latest national poll by Morning Consult of 2,017 registered voters, and 40 percent among 770 self-identified Republicans. When the 770 Republicans were asked to identify their second choice, Trump nudged over 50 percent with a gain of 11 points.
Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are the favorites among GOP voters in the sunshine state, according to a Florida poll conducted by the University of North Florida (UNF), which found Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush not faring so well in their home state.
A CNN poll released this morning suggests that Carly Fiorina is dramatically losing support after a surge of positive reviews following the last Republican debate.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said his opponents Donald Trump and Ben Carson’s recent comments about immigration policy and energy independence effects on the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were “beyond bizarre.” Graham said,
Six Republican presidential candidates lined up to speak at a Faith and Freedom Coalition forum hosted by Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, on Sunday afternoon. Donald Trump was not one of them. Surprisingly, or perhaps not, the topics of illegal immigration and border security were not discussed by those who were there.
