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Report: Carson Advisers Say He Struggles with Foreign Policy

HeadlineNov 18, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s own advisers have acknowledged he is struggling to comprehend foreign policy. Carson, who is the leading Republican candidate in some polls, has blundered on the topic of foreign policy, including wrongly claiming China is involved militarily in Syria. Speaking to The New York Times, a top Carson adviser said, “Nobody has been able to sit down with [Carson] and have him get one iota of intelligent information about the Middle East.”

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