Posted on 09/14/2015 7:05:57 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON — He may be a brain surgeon, but Dr. Ben Carson can’t cut it in the White House, Donald Trump said Sunday.
“I’ll make great deals for this country. Ben can’t do that. Ben’s a doctor and he’s not a deal maker and I’ll make great deals for our country, which is very important,” Trump said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
Deal-making and driving down the national debt is not Carson’s “natural ability at all,” he added.
“Ben Carson’s a very, very nice man, but this will not be a good situation because of the fact that he’s not a dealer, he’s not a negotiator and the President has to be.”
New CBS/YouGov polling found Carson gaining on Trump in Iowa and is within 4 points of the billionaire: 29 percent to 25 percent.
The former pediatric neurosurgeon brushed off Trump’s latest assaults: “It doesn’t bother me, because I recognize that I have plenty of energy.”
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Yes, it’s hard to convince people they should buy an American product when they can get it so much cheaper from China or Mexico. Also, there are some products that simply aren’t made in America anymore because of this very reason. IMO the strategy needs to be to improve our trade deals like Trump says, but just as importantly, to also make doing business here less costly.
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