{"id":18140,"date":"2015-09-06T12:28:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T11:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18140"},"modified":"2015-09-06T12:29:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T11:29:05","slug":"u-s-presidential-election-11-who-can-trump-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18140","title":{"rendered":"U.S. presidential election (11): who can trump Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To the astonishment of many observers, motor-mouth Donald Trump has taken the lead &#8211; and kept it so far &#8211; in the Republican primary race to chose a presidential candidate. Now the media loves political upsets and is looking for evidence that Trump is under challenge. The current unlikely candidate is an African-American neurosurgeon called Ben Carson.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the evidence? So far, a poll showing him with similar support to Trump in the first primary race in Iowa which will be the first state to vote.<\/p>\n<p>But, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/sep\/05\/quiet-rise-ben-carson-republican-presidential-race\">this profile<\/a> points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He has never run for elected office and never had to meet the demands of a constituency. He can be soft-spoken to the point of inaudibility. He has no foreign policy experience. He has no party support.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of courses, if somehow Carson won the Republican nomination and then the following general election, America would have elected two black presidents in succession. But, it ain&#8217;t gonna happen. The odds are still on the nation&#8217;s first female president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the astonishment of many observers, motor-mouth Donald Trump has taken the lead &#8211; and kept it so far &#8211; in the Republican primary race to chose a presidential candidate. Now the media loves political upsets and is looking for evidence that Trump is under challenge. The current unlikely candidate is an African-American neurosurgeon called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18140"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18148,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18140\/revisions\/18148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}