The Secret Service has been called to give protection to Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson, the two current frontrunners for the Republican Party nomination for president, in the wake of threats on their lives.
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked about his opponent Donald Trump’s recent criticisms of President George W. Bush and said that he “seriously” doubts Trump meant that Bush is to blame for the Sept. 11, 2001
During the “Weekend Update” segment on Saturday’s broadcast of “Saturday Night Live,” hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che blasted GOP leaders Dr. Ben Carson and Donald Trump, as well as Carly Fiorina. Jost said that the argument that Trump and Carson
The dominant media culture loves to define everything it doesn’t like as “right-wing,” from milquetoast center-right U.S. politicians to North Korea. Somehow people who aggressively make the case that American government is too large get sorted into the same end of the political spectrum as the biggest and most oppressive governments of all. Certain out-and-proud socialists of the past century are caricatured as “right-wing,” even though they put “socialist” right in their Party name.
Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said of his rival Dr. Ben Carson that he doesn’t have “a clue about what’s going on in the Middle East.” When asked what is behind Carson’s strong poll
The intriguing similarity between Donald Trump and Ben Carson is that both continually defy conventional wisdom and flourish despite coordinated media/Democrat attacks. That’s partially because so many voters have come to despise the corrupt system, and they’re weary of hyper-sensitive freakout-prone popular culture.
On Friday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough and conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt had an exchange about the state of the Republican Party 2016 presidential nominating process. Hewitt argued things won’t be settled by the Republican National Convention
CNBC agrees it will limit its Republican presidential debate to two hours, after Donald Trump and Ben Carson threatened to boycott it if it ran longer.
Sen. Marco Rubio’s campaign is boasting it has more cash on hand than former Florida Governor Jeb Bush — even though Bush out-raised Rubio substantially in the third quarter.
In a joint letter to CNBC, Donald Trump and Ben Carson indicated that they would only agree to a 120 minute debate (including commercials) with time for opening and closing statements.
Ben Carson is going to suspend his presidential campaign for two weeks to hawk his book! This is unprecedented! It shows he’s not serious about running for president! It proves he doesn’t understand anything about how politics works! It’s the end of the world as we know it, and nobody feels fine!
Billionaire businessman Donald Trump is leading his nearest competition in the Republican presidential primary by double-digit margins in Nevada and South Carolina, both early voting states, a new CNN/ORC poll revealed Wednesday. In Nevada, Trump boasted support from 38 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers. Ben Carson placed second with 22 percent followed by Carly Fiorina with 8 percent, and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) with 7 percent.
Donald Trump gets 48 percent of the GOP’s primary vote, counting first and second choices, according to the latest large-scale poll by Morning Consult.
That’s three points short of a majority, and an almost-sure presidential nomination. The score include 34 percent in first-choice votes, and 14 percent in second-choice votes.
Donald Trump leads the Republican field in Connecticut with 34 percent, “his highest score in any Quinnipiac University state poll so far.” And while Hillary Clinton leads on the Democrat side with 37 percent, that’s down from 53 percent back in March.
Donald Trump continues to lead the race for the GOP nomination with 27% support, according to a new CBS poll released Sunday. His support is unchanged since early September. Ben Carson is second and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has moved into 3rd place. Jeb Bush has faded into a tie for 5th place.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued, “the left wing does have does have standard practice for black people, and you’re not supposed to wander away from that” on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. Carson said progressives
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson doesn’t want House Republicans to simply coalesce behind the next candidate in line for the Speakership of the U.S. House. Instead, he wants an open and fair process to find the best possible Speaker.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson says one of his predictions is coming true: The mainstream media is manipulating reality, based on its ideological underpinnings, to come after him during his presidential campaign.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” National Journal’s Ron Fournier said Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is “putting a target on government officials” in his interview earlier in the broadcast when he said the Second Amendment allows Americans to
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said the Second Amendment is for ” if we have a time when we have the wrong people in office, and they want to dominate the people, the
During the October 11 airing of Face the Nation, host John Dickerson went after Ben Carson for contending that the Jewish people would have suffered less under Nazism had they been armed. And instead of examining the substance of Carson’s observation, Dickerson tried to intimate that Carson was suggesting we are under a Nazi-like regime now.
Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus said Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is “remarkably radical.” Marcus said, “I want to take a moment to say something about Ben Caron and your remarkable interview with
New Daily Show host Trevor Noah sat down for a brief interview with political commentator James Carville Saturday during the closing event of the inaugural Politicon convention, where the two discussed the 2016 presidential race and Noah’s hopes for his new show.
“Saturday Night Live’s” Michael Che ripped GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson, talking about his malpractice suits, as well as his stance on being pro-gun ownership. “Dr. Carson, be honest, was your medical degree given sarcastically?” he asked. Che later added,
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated that under his tax plan, the flat tax rate would decline from a probable initial rate of 10-15% and that he would have a “six-month hiatus” on corporate taxes on Saturday’s “Larry Kudlow
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated GQ is “consumed with hatred and intolerance,” and the media has “become the enemy of the people” on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. Carson said, in reaction to GQ’s “F*ck
Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson argued Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson problematically “confuses” “the exceptionalism of his career” on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room.” Mckesson stated that he “grew up really in awe” of Carson’s medical career,
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued that if President Obama takes executive action on firearms, Congress should “finally stand up” in an interview broadcast on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. Carson, after accusing President Obama’s visit to Oregon
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said that he likes Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) and “hopefully he will decide that he wants to” run for speaker in an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.” When asked
On October 8, Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson lamented the actions through which Adolf Hitler rendered the Jewish people defenseless and he contended that armed Jews could have curtailed the Holocaust.
Dr. Ben Carson said that Hitler’s murder of Jews “would have been greatly diminished” if they had been armed. That, to the Washington Post’s Vanessa Williams, is a scandal. It is, however, what many Jews often tell each other.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said that if he was president, a debt ceiling raise would be tied to a 3-4% budget cut and that his flat tax rate “would probably be closer to 15%” on Thursday’s broadcast of
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued he’s “not necessarily with” President Obama’s troop withdrawal plan in Afghanistan, and it’s “just like” Iraq where “we had an obligation to stay there and ensure that it remained stable” on Thursday’s broadcast of
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson argued President Obama’s “sympathy seem[s] to be ideologically based” on Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “On the Record.” Carson stated, [relevant exchange begins around 2:50] “Well, you’ll notice that his sympathy seem[s]
The Get Ben Carson Express has left the station and has now reached maximum velocity.
Leading GOP candidate and brain-surgeon Ben Carson just got hit by hostile research into his 15,000 or so medical operations. “They found five or six disgruntled people, that’s a very small number, and many of those cases never went anywhere, because the legal system said, ‘Are you kidding me?’ and threw it out,” he said.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated, “I have to take him at his word” when asked if President Obama is a Christian on Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Wolf.” Carson said that he believes President Obama was born in the US.
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated that Rupert Murdoch is “not a racist by any stretch of the imagination” and that the controversy over his tweet about the president is “much to do about nothing” on Thursday’s “Wolf” on
Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson stated that schools ” should have someone there who is armed” and that “as long as we don’t compromise the Second Amendment, I’m open for all kind of discussions” on new gun laws on
Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough railed against Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson’s candidacy and warned that despite the content of Carson’s character, he isn’t qualified to be president. Upon reviewing positive feedback about Carson from a Bloomberg Politics/Purple
