Fiorina is latest claimant held in a didn’t-correct-a-supporter trap
Republican presidential claimant Carly Fiorina speaks during a Iowa GOP’s Growth and Opportunity Party during a Iowa state satisfactory drift in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 31. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Fact: President Obama is a Christian.
That hasn’t stopped 43% of Republicans from desiring he is a Muslim
In many cases, those possibilities have been criticized for vouchsafing that fabrication go unchallenged.
The latest vaunt came Friday, when former Hewlett-Packard boss Carly Fiorina listened from a New Hampshire voter during a caf� who pronounced Obama “doesn’t wish this nation to get ahead. He doesn’t. He’s a Muslim. He’s a black Muslim.â€
Fiorina started to spin to a subsequent table, and said, “Well, time to do something opposite in many ways.â€
The sell was caught on camera by ABC News
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— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 7, 2015
Fiorina after told Fox News it was one criticism in a concrete contention with voters. “I’ve pronounced on many occasions that President Obama tells me he’s a Christian, we take him during his word. But a law is President Obama isn’t on a ballot, a chairman on a ballot, who’s going to be on a list on a Democratic side, is Hillary Clinton.â€
Other GOP candidates, confronting matching questions after scarcely matching incidents, have pronounced it’s not their pursuit to scold each crazy thing a believer says.
When a lady told Rick Santorum in 2012 that Obama “is an direct Muslim,†Santorum didn’t scold her. Instead, he replied that “I’m doing my best to get him out of a supervision right now.â€
In September, a male during a Donald Trump convene said, “We have a problem in this nation called Muslims,†and “We know a stream boss is one. You know he’s not even an American.†Trump’s response: “We’re going to be looking during a lot of opposite things.â€
Am we implicitly thankful to urge a boss each time somebody says something bad or argumentative about him? we don’t consider so!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 19, 2015
Contrast those examples with how Sen. John McCain rubbed a matching occurrence while campaigning for boss in 2008. When a lady pronounced Obama was an Arab, McCain shook his conduct and took a microphone behind from her.
“No, ma’am,†he said. “He’s a decent family man, a citizen that we only occur to have disagreements with on elemental issues and that’s what this debate is all about. He’s not. Thank you.â€
McCain was booed by a crowd.