Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson On The Key Issues
GOP primary voters will start casting votes for their preferred nominee in about 100 days, Donald Trump, 69 anni, and Dr. Ben Carson, 64 anni, are about even in the polls now.
These 2 leading Republican candidates are both political outsiders and different from each other on the Key issues.
Below is a list of how they stand, as follows:
1. What they do: Neither candidate has held public office, Mr. Trump and Dr. Carson will be tasked with drawing on their professional backgrounds in the private sector should they become President. Donald Trump took up the family real estate business, and turning $1-M into billions.
Dr. Carson performed a number of life-saving surgeries as the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. When he took the position at age 33, he was the youngest person to ever hold a directorship at the institution. Dr. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in Y2008, the highest civilian honor in the country, and in Y 2001, the Library of Congress named him among 89 “Living Legends.”
2. How they started: Donald Trump grew up the son of a multi-millionaire couple, Dr. Carson was raised by a single mother in a poor, tough neighborhood in Detroit. In high school, Dr. Carson attend college at Yale University. Donald Trump studied real estate at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
3. Religion: Donald Trump is a Presbyterian, Dr. Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist.
4. Public Style: Dr. Carson wrote an op-ed explaining that “one should never mistake soft-spokenness for weakness,” referring to his measured style of speaking. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, Dr. Carson explained that “composure and calmness” helped him save a great many lives on the operating table. Donald Trump has criticized Dr, Carson for his quiet style, accusing him of having “super low energy.” Donald Trump is proud of his style: more direct, unafraid of lobbing criticism, this has won him many supporters.
5. Campaign finance: Donald Trump is using his own money, refusing to be beholden to special interests. Dr. Carson has collected an impressive $20.8-M recently, much coming from small donors.
6. Black and Hispanic support: Donald Trump’s campaign started of controversial on immigrants, costing him multimillion-dollar business deals. Dr. Carson has polled higher than any other Republican candidate among Black voters, and ranks high when it comes to Hispanic voters. Donald Trump poll last among Hispanic voters.
7. Economics outlooks: Both Donald Trump and Dr. Carson favor many of the same fiscal policy issues needed to kick start the anemic Obama economy. Donald Trump’s 5-point plan emphasizes American favoritism in trade in order to bring overseas business back to US shores. Dr. Carson’s plan emphasizes a reduced, 10% flat tax for all Americans.
8. Family matters: Dr Carson met his wife, Lacena Rustin, in college, and they married in Y 1975, have 3 sons. Donald Trump married his 3rd wife, Melania, in Y 2005, they have 1 son Barron William Trump. Donald Trump was married to Marla Maples from Y’s 1993–1999, they have 1 daughter Tiffany. Donald Trump and his 1st wife, Ivana, have 3 children together, Donald, Jr., Ivanka, and Eric.
9. Social Security: Donald Trump says he no longer wants to raise the Social Security retirement age to 70. Dr. Carson want to gradually raise the current retirement age to 66.
10. Medicare: Donald Trump believes Medicare is a program that’s worked, and that some people love. Dr. Carson 1st wanted to abolish Medicare, will not now because “some people are wedded to it emotionally.”
11. Barack Obamacare: Donald Trump wants to repealed and replace it. Dr Carson sees an overhaul.
12. Illegal Immigration: Both Donald Trump and Dr. Carson see it as a major problem and are exploring ways to deal with it responsibly.
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