Posted on 10/25/2015 2:45:53 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
As Ben Carson catches up to Donald Trump in Iowa in recent polls of the early contest state, Trump remains baffled at his Republican competitor's success.
"I don't understand Iowa because frankly, I just left and we had tremendous crowds and tremendous enthusiasm," Trump told CBS' "Face the Nation" early Sunday. "Frankly, even to be tied, I'm a little surprised."
He added that he was "very honored" to be lead in other key early-voting states like New Hampshire and South Carolina. But when it comes to Iowa, where he and Carson both lead the GOP field at 27 percent in a new CBS poll, he remains "surprised."
"I think that Iowa, you know, it has that same incredible feeling. We had a rally there the other day and it was so intense and there was so much love in the room," Trump continued. "So I'm actually surprised, very surprised that I'm even tied in Iowa."
Trump attributes Carson's rise in Iowa to the super PAC operations backing Ben Carson in the state, which he attacked as "running Iowa for him."
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I don’t think Trump has ran one media add in Iowa.
If trump was supposedly behind Carson and now tied, does that count as a surge???
I frankly don’t understand Iowa either.
In fact, I don’t really understand anyone from that general area of the country to be perfectly honest.
I see Carson as a shooting star, here today, gone tomorrow. He seems like a good guy but not the guy for this job.
Maybe THIS will explain it.
I agree with you. I think Carson’s shining moment will be Iowa and that’s it.
Why is Iowa the first to choose our candidate? By the time it gets to my state my candidate has already been eliminated. The RNC said they were going to fix that. They lied.
Trump needs to attack Club for Growth pronto. Hopefully he is aware of the negative ads about him in Iowa.
Iowa? Its easy. A center left state, with its mouth firmly clamped on the government farm and ethanol subsidy nipple, chosen by the establishment to always choose establishment clones. It uses a corrupt caucus system rather than a vote.
Next question,
Trump will carry Iowa...providing nothing weird happens.
I think so too.
Supporting Trump means that you’ve come to accept that the traditional two party system is broken, and that’s a big leap for a lot of folks. Carson is the safe alternative.
“I don’t really understand anyone from that general area of the country to be perfectly honest.”
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.
LOL,,, blazing saddles!
Iowa has always been unpredictable and the winner of the Caucus has not always been the national front runner.
Back in 1980. George H.W. Bush upset national front runner Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucus for example.
“Trump will carry Iowa...providing nothing weird happens.”
There’s the rub. A caucus system. Your neighbors see who you caucused for. And out of staters can flood in same day and join in, like they did for Obama. Notice how Obama won the Caucus states and Hillary won Primaries?
Iowa can provide any result needed.
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