Donald Trump won't apologize to Ben Carson over religion comments

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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said Sunday he won't apologize to opponent Ben Carson for comments he made that seemed to call into question the retired neurosurgeon's Seventh-day Adventist faith.

ABC's This Week host, George Stephanopoulos, asked Trump, who is a Presbyterian, about a potential apology for what he said at a Florida rally Saturday: "I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don't know about."

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.