Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson is "underrated by everyone in Washington" and has had "a very strong few weeks," Bill Kristol, founder and editor of The Weekly Standard, told
Newsmax TV on Tuesday.
"Carson has a lot of support out there," Kristol told "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "A lot of people he's in contact with through Facebook and other social media out there are kind of beneath the mainstream media radar screen."
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He noted
how Carson's #IAmAChristian hashtag on Twitter and Facebook went viral after the Oregon community college shootings last Thursday.
"I was told — I haven't looked myself — that he had over a million people liking his Facebook post," Kristol said. "Those are huge numbers."
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