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Donald Trump losing evangelical support to Ben Carson amid questions about faith

Donald Trump is leading among evangelical Republican voters nationally, but those on the ground in Iowa, where religious conservatives play an outsize role in picking GOP presidential nominees, say they can’t see it lasting.

At 27 percent nationally, Donald Trump maintains his frontrunner status among Republican primary voters, but Ben Carson is now close behind him, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds.

As Republican presidential candidate continues to make headway against frontrunner Donald Trump in national polling, his wife will head to New Hampshire Saturday and his state campaign has picked up the backing of three veteran conservatives.

Ben Carson Works His Way Up the Donation Ladder

First came the grass-roots support. Now Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who has quietly arrived near the front of the Republican presidential field, is scooping up $100,000 a night from wealthy donors in Texas and California — evidence that he is fast transforming from a novelty candidate into one to be taken seriously by rivals and party leaders alike.

Could Ben Carson or Marco Rubio help the GOP win minority votes? It’s not so simple.

In 2012, one of the running and possibly distasteful jokes among political reporters went something like this: Republican National Convention organizers managed to allot time, space and national attention to what seemed like every black, Latino and Asian American GOP elected official they could find — even as there were very few among the delegates present.

Poll: Hillary Clinton’s support falls by 21 points as Donald Trump gains

Hillary Clinton’s support has fallen by 21 percentage points since July, according to the latest national ABC News/Washington Post poll released Monday.

Meanwhile, support for Donald Trump has surged to 33 percent, a 9-point jump during the same period and a further sign that the billionaire business mogul is in a commanding position in the Republican primary ahead of this week’s GOP debate.

On Sunday, Hillary Clinton stood at the pulpit of Foundry United Methodist Church, which she’d attended as first lady, and said she’d just gotten some excellent, Bible-based advice from her former minister, J. Philip Wogaman: In keeping with the reading of the day, from Romans 12, he told her, “You’ve got to be nicer to the press.”