story. on the other hand, carson may get some campaign contributions out of this. he s benefiting being at least in the short term receipt now. he remains one of the co-front-runners with donald trump. in the course of the last week, a jaw dropping figure that his cam pan received $.5 million in campaign contributions. again, that was in just one week s time. that s the kind of money his opponents would envy taking in at this point in the campaign cycle. beyond that he then went on twitter writing thank you biased media, making it clear that his conservative supporters believe he s getting a raw deal right now. on the other side of the race be the three remaining democrats are all trying hard to stand out. rachel maddow hosted a forum friday. the candidates attempted to connect with voters on gun violence, justice reform and other important issues.