Carly and Carson

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They spoke yesterday;

WILTON — A pair of GOP presidential hopefuls painted a bleak picture of America in decline Sunday afternoon, but said the nation can return to its previous greatness if citizens are willing to join them in reclaiming the country.

“It’s time to take our government back,” Carly Fiorina said at Republican Party of Iowa Chairman Jeff Kaufmann’s barbecue in Wilton, winning enthusiastic applause from an audience of more than 450.

The public has lost faith in the federal government, she said, “because it picks winners and losers, because it favors some over others, because they see the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well-connected getting bigger and more powerful and wealthier and better connected, and they see the small and the powerless getting crushed.”

She was followed by retired physician Ben Carson, who said Thomas Jefferson predicted that the nation would reach this point — that people would not be paying attention, “and the government would grow, it would infiltrate and it would dominate.”

Back to what Carly? The 1850s?