because moore s accusers are women and his accusers were obama allies with the suggestion being that he was punished by an administration with an unfavorable view of coal. now some nervous republican linked super pacs are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars against the republican blankenship to keep him off the ballot. is he spending millions of his own. martha? martha: peter, thank you very much. a the washington post columnist recently summed up the west virginia primary saying this. if the 2018 midterm election were a season of the apprentice, we would already have a front run tore beat out everyone else. don blankenship fresh out of prison who stands a decent chance of going becoming west virginia s next republican nominee for the senate. here now don blankenship west virginia senate g.o.p. candidate and former massey coal ceo. thank you very much. good to have you with us here tonight. thank you. martha: why do you think at this point that you are behind in the polls
reporter: the two frontrun r frontrunners have largely avoided going after each other. this is especially significant especially as it inches closer to the iowa caucus. thank you for that. joining us is jeremy diamond from the washington bureau. good morning, nice to see you. good morning. let s talk about john mccain and what he has to say about this whole thing. yesterday, 24 hours ago, we were talking. mccain was born not on u.s. in the panama canal zone which is u.s. territory. i do not know the answer to that. i know it came up in my race because i was born in panama, but i was born in the canal zone which is a territory. barry goldwater was born in arizona when it was a territory when he ran in 1965.
at a closed door fundraiser in new york wherein he questioned whether ted cruz and trump had the temperament finger on the button. with that said both ted cruz and donald trump is are center stage in the. cruz will be directly next to him and there is almost sure to be some fireworks. in addition there is marco rubio. rubio and cruz had 0qq tied for third for quite some time. rubio has been criticizing cruz on national security votes in the senate to shush some of the nsa surveillance programs as well as their differences on immigration. ben carson has plummeted. since october he has gone from 29 in national polling, in some cases down into the low double digits, 60% of his vote is be a berated. that s important to note in just six weeks he went from front run tore fourth place. seven weeks before the iowa caucus vote and anything can
nearly an hour taking selfies with them. he joked just get them on facebook and tweet them. georgia beat rival south carolina 62-20. good on him. donald trump is responding to questions on his comments to muslims. the u.s. republican presidential front run tells cnn, i love the muslims, i think they re great people. trump made the comment after a question and answer session with iowa high school students on saturday. i consider muslim americans to be an important asset to our country and society. would you consider putting one in your cabinet or on your ticket? you consider what? a muslim american on your cabinet or ticket. muslim? uh-huh. absolutely. no problem with it. would i consider putting a muslim american in my cabinet? absolutely no problem with that. trump has been defending himself and correcting a
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