Posted on 10/28/2015, 4:17:28 PM by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill would back Ben Carson if he wins the GOP presidential nomination. Carson has overtaken billionaire Donald Trump in some polls, and congressional Republicans said Tuesday that they would support the new front-runner if he secured the nomination next spring.
A day before Carson and the rest of the GOP field is set to debate for a third time, in Boulder, Colo., nearly every member of Congress who spoke to the Washington Examiner said Carson could count on them for support. "I'm going to support whoever's the GOP nominee, and I know Ben Carson and I like him," said Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, the Republican Conference's vice chairman.
In the past week, Carson, a world-renowned surgeon but political novice, has usurped Trump's lead in Iowa, with four separate polls showing him ahead. Trump was also seen trailing Carson in the latest CBS/New York Times national poll released Tuesday. It is first time Trump has not led the field since July. Blunt's comments were mirrored by three other senators when asked whether they would get behind Carson as the nominee if he won it. Sens. Pat Roberts, Tom Cotton and John Barrasso, who serves as the GOP's Policy Committee chair in leadership, all answered in the affirmative.
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[[GOP lawmakers: We’d back Carson]]
Of course they would because he’s every bit a rino as they are!
Carson is approved by The Cheap Labor Express and their lackeys in Congress.
No. No. No. No. No.
Yes it does and yes she will, so this Country has a question to answer....
Who wants to Make America Great Again or,
Who wants to be poor the rest of their lives, and feed the illegal immigrants forever....
Didn’t like him much before... this doesn’t help...
Makes sense. They are the GOP-wing of the Democrat party, and Carson’s apparent surge is courtesy of Democrat crossovers who won’t be voting Republican in the general election.
“This tells me all I need to know....Hillary can beat Carson.”
Yep! I don’t want anyone that the eGOP wants.
“GOP lawmakers: We’d back Carson”. So, is the subliminal message “We won’t back Trump.”
There’s the kiss of death. Was this statement designed to torpedo him?
Yep.
What do you expect them to say? “We’ll support the Democrat?” Carson has zero chance of winning the nomination and they know it so it’s an easy, and meaningless, promise to make.
That seals it 100% Trump
The outrage is that these GOP legislators feel privileged to say which of the people’s choice they will and won’t support.
The GOP is nothing but a liability at this point. All brakes with no accelerator.
Picking the losing horse again.
Yep, makes perfect sense to me. They would prefer Hillary over Trump or Cruz.
I never heard not one of them say they would back Trump if he is the nominee. Why not?
ANSWER: Trump goes against the establishment NWO agenda.
Another sleazy NON story pathetically trying to tie Carson to the GOP Establishment. By this standard. Trump and Cruz are both "GOPE insiders" since if they are the nominees, these same people will support them!
Really desperate and sad tactics.
RINOs: “Oh, we’ll back Carson just to take out Trump. But once the time is ripe, Marco Rubio will be our man.”
No. But that’s because the anti-Trump message is not subliminal.
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