Ben Carson Tells Donald Trump ‘I Have Plenty of Energy’

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Ben Carson, newly minted frontrunner for the Iowa Republican presidential caucus, is pushing back against criticism from billionaire Donald Trump that he is “super low energy.”

“I don’t get into the mud pit,” Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, said in an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. “I do have a tendency to be relaxed. I wasn’t always like that. There was a time when I was, you know, very volatile.”