Sunday morning talk show hosts asked all the Republican candidates what they thought of Donald Trump’s confrontation with Fox News host Megyn Kelly during the GOP debates, and as an outspoken critic of political correctness, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson’s reply Sunday was notable.
“I think there may be a difference between political correctness and, you know, courteous speech,” Carson said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “In no way do I advocate saying mean things about people.”
“I haven’t heard [Trump’s] specific comments,” Carson added. “But I’ve heard about them. And they certainly would not be the kinds of things that I would engage in.”
Donald Trump was disinvited from the RedState gathering of conservatives Saturday after he said of Megyn Kelly’s questioning during the debate: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes; blood coming out of her wherever.”
Carson said he prefers to focus on his own performance during the Republican presidential debate rather than that of Trump. He attributed garnering the most number of Twitter followers after the debate — 24,000 — to the fact that “about half the people didn’t even know who I was.”
“So I’m just sure they were saying, ‘Who is this guy? He actually makes a little bit of sense. This is good,'” Carson said. “And, you know, we’ve had, like, 275,000 new Facebook likes and Twitter has gone crazy.”
Carson said he hoped to use the attention his campaign caught during the debate to unite Americans.
“The problems that face us are not Democrat or Republican problems,” he said. “They face all of us.”
