Electoral battles

Trump and Carson repeat calls to spy on U.S. Muslims

Ben Carson says he backs broad intelligence-monitoring any place where there’s “a lot of radicalization going on.”

Just where? Churches, mosques, schools, shopping centers are some of the examples the Republican presidential candidate is citing.

He tells ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday that the country needs “to get very serious about our intelligence” to ensure Americans’ safety.

...Donald Trump says “trouble’s coming out of the mosques” in the United States and “we’re being foolish, we’re kidding ourselves” if law enforcement doesn’t keep close surveillance on those houses of worship.

The Republican presidential candidate says such monitoring is needed as part of a terrorism-fighting strategy – even if there’s strong push-back to that idea. He says “we’ve taken political correctness to a point where we can’t do anything as a country anymore.”