Ben Carson sometimes imagines Donald Trump as a 'cute little baby'

Donald Trump with his family.
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Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has a go-to move when his political rivals attack him: He just imagines them as babies.

"I just kind of look at them and I say, can you imagine that used to be a cute little baby?" Carson told Time. "I wonder what happened to that?"

When asked specifically whether he employs this technique with Donald Trump, all the retired neurosurgeon did was nod his head and laugh.

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