How Ben Carson’s Seventh Day Adventist faith has helped his campaign

BCJust when I was getting to like Ben Carson.

Donald Trump is perplexed that his 2016 Republican opponent Ben Carson has surpassed him in Iowa polls. As Trump in recent days questioned why the former pediatric neurosurgeon is gaining ground, he’s also called into question Carson’s religious beliefs.

“I’m Presbyterian,” Trump said to a crowd in Jacksonville, Florida on Saturday. “Boy, that’s down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.” MORE