published Sep 22, 2017, 4:32:39 PM, by Joe Light (Bloomberg) —Ben Carson has been a faithful ally to President Donald Trump since winning confirmation to serve as U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary, but he as put himself at odds with his boss in expressing support for Roy Moore in Alabama’s

published Sep 6th 2016, 8:51 am, by Jennifer Jacobs and Kevin Cirilli (Bloomberg) —Nearly three weeks ago, Donald Trump began a blunt appeal to Hispanics and blacks. With his “what the hell do you have to lose?” line, his talk of softening his stance on immigrants residing in the country illegally,

©2016 Bloomberg News O0P7HT6S9728 (Bloomberg) — U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and several Republican presidential hopefuls appeared at an anti-poverty forum in South Carolina on Saturday, hoping to counter the notion that only Democrats care about non-whites, single mothers, the unemployed, and the working poor. The Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity

 ©2015 Bloomberg View NYY2NW6KLVR4 (Bloomberg View) — It’s a recurring theme in U.S. history: Populist presidential candidates giving voice to an electorate fed up with Washington and politics as usual. Yet the three politicians wearing the label — the Republicans Ben Carson, Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, Ted

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NY5ECK6S972A (Bloomberg) — Seated at a table designed to look like Thanksgiving and reminiscent of the Last Supper, seven Republican presidential candidates gathered Friday for an Iowa forum where there were more fireworks from the audience than from a stage that lacked front-runner Donald Trump. After quelling several outbursts

©2015 Bloomberg News NY3C9J6S972B (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump questioned Ben Carson’s qualifications to be president during an appearance Thursday evening in Iowa, highlighting a New York Times story this week that quoted an adviser to the retired neurosurgeon saying he’d been unable to teach the candidate about the Middle East.

©2015 Bloomberg View NXKJ2B6JTSED (Bloomberg View) — In the race for the Republican nomination for president, Ben Carson and Donald Trump are basically co-leaders in the polls. For now, they dominate the Republican field. Carson is running an “outsider” campaign, has no significant experience in politics or government and reveals

©2015 Bloomberg View NWOLRR6JTSEF (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump is no longer winning everywhere. The new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll has Ben Carson on top in Iowa, with a 9-percentage-point lead over Trump. Combined with another national survey released yesterday, the HuffPollster estimate now has Carson at 26 percent to

©2015 Bloomberg News NWSF4N6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump still has some things to learn about presidential rival Ben Carson. Trump defended his comments about Carson’s Seventh-Day Adventist faith on Sunday. “I know nothing about it really. I’m a Presbyterian and I had mentioned that, and I did say I don’t know about it.

©2015 Bloomberg News NWACMK6KLVRN (Bloomberg) — Presidential candidate Ben Carson is the king of Republican small dollars. The rookie politician’s third quarter fundraising report shows he’s raised $19.6 million in contributions of $200 or less this year. That appears to be a record for Republicans running for president. Carson, whose $21 million