Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson on Friday
apologized for questioning fellow primary challenger Donald Trump’s
spiritual faith, drawing further contrast on how top GOP candidates
handle the front-running Trump's calculated and often withering
attacks.
“I think I did slip, and that’s why I apologized,” Carson said on Fox
News’ “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren.” “There is no reason ever
to question anybody’s faith. That’s something between them and God.”
A few days earlier, Carson said he didn’t get the impression that humility and “fear of the Lord” were important to Trump.
“Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't get that," said Carson, a retired
neurosurgeon whose soft-spoken style has made him a top 2016 GOP
presidential candidate.
Carson made the apology just hours before Trump -- whose has declined
to apologize numerous times during his campaign for questionable
remarks about fellow candidates, Mexicans and others -- suggested he has
no immediate plans to ever apologize.
“I fully think apologizing is a great thing," the front-running GOP
candidate and billionaire businessman said on NBC’s “Tonight Show. “But
you have to be wrong. ... I will absolutely apologize sometime in the
hopefully distant future if I'm ever wrong."
Most recently, Trump seemed to criticize the physical appearance of
surging GOP contender Carly Fiorina in a “Rolling Stone” magazine
profile.
"Look at that face,” he said. "Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?"
On Thursday, Trump argued that he was talking about Fiorina’s “persona,” not “her looks.”
Carson, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker have gone head-to-head with Trump with limited success.
“He’s a non-serious carnival act,” Jindal said Thursday. “Donald
Trump is shallow. Has no understanding of policy. He’s full of bluster
but has no substance. He lacks the intellectual curiosity to even
learn.”
And after Trump repeatedly saying that he wants to build a wall along
the entire southern U.S. border and have Mexico pay for it, Walker made
a proposal to have a wall along the Canadian border that was largely
dismissed.
Walker is now at 4.8 percent, and Jindal is at less than 1 percent,
compared to Trump at 30 percent, according to the most recent averaging
of polls by the nonpartisan website RealClearPolitics.
Meanwhile, Carson and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the GOP’s
establishment candidate and early presumptive frontrunner, have largely
chosen to avoid the war of words with Trump, apparently taking the
strategy that his campaign will eventually fizzle of implode in a fury
of public backlash.
“I really should not have taken that bait,” Carson, who is running
second in most national polls, also told Fox News on Friday night. “I
just don’t want to get into that at all.”
copy http://www.foxnews.com/
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário