Carson dropped 8 percentage points since mid-October according to a CNN/ORC poll released last Friday. Meanwhile, Ted Cruz, who has focused his efforts on Iowa, has climbed 12 points. And only 42 percent of Republican voters now say Carson has the right experience to be president, down from 64 percent five weeks ago, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released last week.
“Well basically people feel that I don’t have foreign policy experience and I understand why that would be the case because they listen to the narrative that only politicians can fix this but the fact of the matter is if you look at all the people who are running, how many of them have had foreign policy experience?” Carson said this morning on “Good Morning America.” “The answer is no, not, not many. Maybe Hillary.”
The retired neurosurgeon faced a number of foreign policy mistakes in the wake of the Nov. 13 Paris terror attacks, with his own advisers acknowledging that he has trouble grasping foreign affairs.
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