Dr. Ben Carson (Photo: Twitter)
A new report from the Washington Post reveals that retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson, who was among that last handful of the 17 original GOP presidential candidates to drop out of the race and had been a favorite of conservatives, will endorse Donald Trump on Friday.
The report said the word came from “two people familiar with his thinking.”
Trump already has gotten the endorsement of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who also conducted a run for the GOP nomination, and then dropped out.
The post said the endorsement plans came about when Carson met with Trump and the Mar-a-Lago luxury club the GOP front-runner owns in Florida. The sources insisted on anonymity.
The newspaper said Armstrong Williams, Carson’s business manager, confirmed the meeting but did not reveal further details.
There was no comment from the Trump organization.
Carson, whose low-keyed speech and mild manner of responding stood out amidst the harsh rhetoric of several early GOP debates, was the favorite of many evangelicals for his unabashed and unintimidated statement of Christian faith.
On Fox radio this week, Carson had dropped suggestions that he might be leaning toward Trump as the best option for giving the GOP the presidential election this year.
There, he said, “There’s two Donald Trumps. There’s the Donald Trump that you see on television and who gets out in front of big audiences, and there’s the Donald Trump behind the scenes. They’re not the same person. One’s very much an entertainer, and one is actually a thinking individual.”
In a commentary that was posted on Thursday, Carson said, “Let’s assume that Donald Trump does, in fact, continue on his remarkable blitzkrieg to Cleveland and secures the right to cross swords with Hillary Clinton in the fall. What happens down-ticket?
“So much more than the White House is at stake. With such a polarizing figure at the top of the ticket, the political ramifications would not be as easy to decipher.”
He suggested the “dump Trump” move might not be the wisest.
“If you are a candidate in a heavily Democratic district or need a boost to tip the scales in your favor, it may not make political sense to shun the presidential nominee,” he wrote.
At the same time, “What if The Donald then goes off the deep end and forgets that the gospels are part of the Bible. Will any down-ticket candidate be able to ignore that?”
Carson wrote that he’s not sure Republicans can avoid taking a stand on Trump.
And then he said there are those who are considered by voters to be “part of the problem.”
Those, he wrote, “will run to Trump’s side quicker than Chris Christie.”
“As 1,237 delegates begins to look more and more attainable for Trump, expect the GOP party faithful to pivot to the strategic interests of their down-ticket candidates this November,” he said.
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