Milwaukee
Ben Carson came to Wisconsin ready to rumble with Donald Trump. Since Carson surged to a tie for first place with Trump in national and Iowa polls, the real estate mogul has been attacking the neurosurgeon in media interviews and on Twitter. And the Carson campaign thought Tuesday night would be the time to respond.

“We were kind of hoping he would [attack]. We were all set to really go after him,” Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett told me in the spin room after the debate. According to Bennett, Carson planned on telling Trump: “I saved 15,000 lives in the operating room. And you don’t appreciate my service, but I wouldn’t trade a single one of them for all of your money. Money’s not important to me. It’s not what’s important to most Americans.”