Her daughter read Carson’s books and said his words inspired her.
Eleven years later, Bouwsma traveled with Carsonto Detroit to witness his son’s namesake announce that he was running for president. Carson is fresh, new and brings a different perspective to the table, one not tainted by the freakish politics of Washington.
The fact of the matter is that Ben Carson has already spent a good deal of his life solving very complex problems.
Carson’s numbers in the polls are rising both nationally and in the critical early states. And the Huffpost Pollster estimate there has Trump at 24 percent and Carson at only 15 percent (although when the Pollster program is set to be more sensitive to recent polls, Carson is only half a percentage point behind).
No, Carson probably isnt actually leading in Iowa.
In an interview that aired Monday on WPEC in West Palm Beach, Fla., Carson – who has never sought or held elected office – said it’s his non-politician status that has gotten voters’ attention. As he said recently during the debates, when he operates on a brain they are all the same color. So what’s the attraction to Carson?
“We’re looking at an event in Orange County next week”. He said he disagrees with the Supreme Court’s ruling on gay marriage, but he acknowledges it’s now the law of the land, all the while emphasizing the need for conscience protections.
Carson also called the Affordable Care Act flawed. Nevertheless, I have little doubt that as Carson receives more scrutiny, the broader public, which hasn’t learned much about him, will say, “Wait a minute, this guy is kind of insane”.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has lost just about all viability as a presidential candidate in his home state, with nearly 8 in 10 Republican primary voters in South Carolina now saying that he should drop out of the race for the White House.
It’s a trend Carson expects will continue.
“I don’t want to disappoint those people and I certainly don’t want to waste their money”, he said as he appeared to choke up.
“There’s nobody who knows everything, ” he said.
Buerger is one of more than 275,000 unique donors who have given to Carson’s campaign, pitching in $325 for the retired neurosurgeon, who grew up in poverty on the rough and tumble southwest side of Detroit.
But Carson has been somewhat of a question mark in the race thus far.
After Trump and Carson, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz are tied with 6 percent. Carson could talk about replacing Obamacare, defunding Planned Parenthood, expanding school choice, and other social issues that Trump is not cut out for. His plan is deportation, which Krikorian dismissed as unrealistic. “He doesn’t turn people off with the first few words that he says”, she said. However, we all know there are solutions that are out there. “I think he is naive in some ways, particularly in terms of foreign policy and immigration”.
Selzer said policy positions and political experience are not essential for Iowa voters, yet.