Trump on his drop in Iowa: 'I don't get it'

By Ryan Lovelace, Ryan Lovelace

Published December 20, 2015

Donald Trump admitted Monday that he doesn't understand how he lost the lead to retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson in Iowa.

"Some of these polls coming out, I don't quite get it," Trump told MSNBC. "I was number one pretty much in Iowa from the beginning. And I would say we're doing very well there so I was a little bit surprised."

"This one I don't quite get," he added. "I would have thought we are doing much better. I think we are doing much better."

Trump said as the new leader in Iowa, Carson would have to withstand more scrutiny, and then applied some of his own.