WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) — Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson will endorse GOP front-runner Donald Trump for president, news reports said late Thursday.
The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources, first reported Carson’s decision to back Trump.
The report said Carson will make the endorsement official Friday at a news conference with Trump in Florida.
Earlier in the day, Carson said he was “leaning toward” endorsing Trump during an interview on Fox News radio, but also said he was considering support for Sen. Ted Cruz.
Carson exited the race after disappointing results on Super Tuesday when he failed to win a single state, a few months after he had actually overtaken Trump in national polls. Among stinging attacks from Trump, a string of embarrassing slip-ups on the campaign trail and reports of campaign in-fighting, Carson’s time at the top of the GOP race was brief.
During the radio interview, Carson said he has gotten to know Trump when he is not on stage revving up rowdy crowds — and he’s liked what he’s seen.
“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,” Carson said. “They’re not the same person. One’s very much an entertainer, and one is actually a thinking individual.”
Carson, who remains a respected figure in the evangelical community, went on to say Trump is “more reasonable” than people realize.
Since ending his campaign, Carson has signed on with the Christian group My Faith Votes to help rally support for conservatives in the fall.
Carson would become the second of Trump’s vanquished rivals to officially support his campaign, after New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie did so two weeks ago. The only other failed candidate to make an endorsement in the Republican race so far is Carly Fiorina, who said Wednesday she is endorsing Sen. Ted Cruz.
Former candidate Jeb Bush has met with Cruz, Sen. Marco Rubio and Gov. John Kasich to discuss their efforts to unseat Trump as the front-runner, but so far has not publicly endorsed anyone.
DID YOU LOSE YOUR JOB TO ILLEGAL ALIENS OR PROFESSIONAL H1-B VISA WORKERS? TRUMP KNOWS WHY AND HE WILL DELIVER US ALL FROM OUR HARDSHIPS?
You just have to listen to the Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders an honest, Socialist who at least believes what he says? Then we have Sen. Ted (Rafael) Cruz, Sen. Rubio and Govenor Kasick of Ohio and Donald Trump. The spotlight fell of Donald Trump because opened a major can of worms, what the others failed to do or would rather stay silent about it. It’s become the best selling issue to the American people of the illegal alien invasion, which not only has King Obama welcomed with an open hand, and has tied up the US Border Patrol and ICE in carrying out their duties. Currently there is a scam going on at the Southern border, whereas Border agents are prohibited to patrol high track areas with heavy concentrations of illegal aliens implicated by this President. In her debates Hillary Clinton is telling her small crowds that illegal alien movement is radically down, when in truth Agents can only hold and if the person has no criminal record must be released; illegal aliens are not even given a paper Notice to Appear before a judge (MPA) and can walk away and just disappear into our sovereign nation.
The attack ads are hitting the airwaves, with many lies and rhetoric and trumps statements out of context. These Attack displays are being paid for by wealthy donors are going to be crippled by Trump management, killing their rich access as profiteers to foreign nations who are bleeding us dry.
Then Donald Trump having a refined gentleman as Ben Carson endorsing him, illustrates to the burdened working Americans that the man has exceptional commanding abilities to dig us out of this economic morass.
NOT ONLY ARE AMERICAN JOBS BEING STOLEN BY THE MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS, BUT IS BEING HIRED BY BUSINESSES WHO NOT HELD ACCOUNTABLE. BUT ALL THIS WILL CHANGE IF TRUMP IS VOTED INTO HIGH OFFICE. TRUMPS GIANT WALL STRETCHING A 1000 MILES WILL RISE UP AND A STRINGENT SYSTEM TO STOP THE OVERSTAYS WHO ARRIVE BY PLANE EVERY DAY AND REMAIN HERE. THEY ARE JUST AS MUCH AN ILLEGAL ALIEN WHO ENTERS OUR COUNTRY WITHOUT BEING VETTED.
Through two terms of Obama I have seen the obnoxious rise of the Politically Correct Policing, that has not only forced indoctrination by Socialist so called progressive faculty in our Education system on our kids, the general public and now our military. This will be utterly eradicated as in the Trump administration every American or legal immigrant, not matter their class in society will enjoy a new era of a vitalized economy, because the political class of will be maligned and subject to answerability.
THIS IS PROBABLY THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION IN DECADES, SO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A SHARP EYE ON THE PRIMARIES AS DEMOCRATS WILL EXPLOIT WHATEVER RESOURCES IS AVAILABLE, EVEN TO OVERLOOKING NON CITIZENS VOTING WHICH IS ILLEGAL AND COULD BE A CATASTROPHE. NOT SO LONG AGO THEY USED THE ‘ACORN’ ORGANIZATION TO SIGN UP ILLEGAL ALIENS. FOR INSTANCE OVER A MILLION DRIVERS LICENSES HAVE BEEN PASSED OUT TO ILLEGAL ALIENS IN CALIFORNIA AND ALONG WITH A THE MOTOR VOTER BILL TO REGISTER? IS THIS A BREEDER OFFICIAL ID THAT CAN BE USED SO ILLEGAL ALIENS CAN VOTE IN THE BLUE STATE?
The only reason the Republicans and Democrats are throwing disparaging remarks at Donald Trump, is their lucrative worlds are about to crumple. All the perks from the Special interests are falling apart, because the American people have had enough of ‘Business as Usual’ from the corporate and industrial entities, which buy the votes in Washington. We saw the creation of this from the former Presidente of Mexico Vicente Fox and now the new Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto who is storming around, giving interviews and calling Trump Hitler, which shows to me their gravely worried about Trump reaching the Oval office and conclude their wealth of bribes and fraud offered to them by the political party’s and the mega corporate manufacturing base. State of Ohio last year lost 16.000 jobs, that’s why we need is Donald Trumps fair and balanced free trade.
The State of Ohio has lost 600.000 jobs since January 2007, The only reason the Republicans and Democrats are throwing derogatory remarks at Donald Trump, is their lucrative worlds are about to collapse. All the perks from the Special interests are falling apart, because the American people have had enough of ‘Business as Usual’ from the corporate and industrial entities, which buy the votes in Washington. Trump knows what he is talking about, as he sees it as ‘Commonsense’. Free Trade, not the conglomeration of poorly effective trade deals, that offers our nation nothing, put together by incompetent delegates, who probably have secret meetings with foreign donors to collect large stipends in off shore bank accounts.
Trump has an answer for any raw dealings, which if you don’t play are the rules such as currency manipulation, you are a monetary threat to America, and a penalty of 53% on any importation tariff will be imposed.
Very soon the fast track Transpacific Partnership (PPT) will be approved and without Trump running the White House hundreds of thousands of more jobs will be gone and the giant companies with them. If you think any of the other nominees for President will do anything about it, you have a sad awakening. This is just another step in the bad Trade agreement that we have seen with Japan, China, India, areas of Europe and now the TTP, which is all enveloped with Asia and the East China Seas.
Obama has ignored the backlash from Congress and pushed ahead with his overreaching executive orders, implementing laws against Article 1 of the constitution. Presidents don’t write laws; they just right approve them after Congress passes them. Illegal immigration have become a nemesis to the American worker, and now you try to facilitate as harmless, the millions who come here are stealing jobs from citizens and immigrants, who went through the procedures to reach their legal status. Hidden behind the closed doors in Washington is the buying and selling of THE PEOPLES future, is in jeopardy. Unrecognized millions of average men and women from the working class comprising of Republicans, Democrats, Independents silently moving over to the Trump line, from every class of our divided society. In actual fact blue collar union workers, white collar realize their jobs are at stake and that’s why African Americans, Caucasians, Hispanics and other ethnic groups are crowding the incredulous areas where Donald Trump is speaking.
Ex-Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, which has many legal mountains to climb, before she could claim the Presidency, from her first appearance in political circles in the media headlines of the Whitewater conspiracy, through her history to date squirming through the smallest hole of the judicial system with the collaboration of Obama and the State Department. Madam Clinton conspired with the White House, with her lying about the Benghazi, Libya slaughter and even lied to the family of the shattered families of the terrible incident, that it was caused by a video. She is certainly the smoothest, untrustworthy personage that millions of Americans have seen through? The only people who are willing to overlook her sinister past, of both her and a predator husband, that she and Bernie Sanders are doppelgangers of Obama proxy giving out other people’s money to the impoverished. The Clinton foundation is under review by the Federal Bureau of Investigation at this time, personal server, and National Security.