Carson failed to respond when asked whose choice it was to back Trump. The quiet thinker and the flashy showman?
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Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson, left, speaks with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump after a news conference at the Mar-A-Lago Club, Friday, March 11, 2016, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Congressman Duncan Hunter Jr. believes that the popular derision of Trump has shamed many supporters from publicly declaring their support for the real estate mogul’s bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
He made no effort to address the contradiction. “There’s one you see on the stage and there’s the one who’s very cerebral, sits there and considers things very carefully”.
A month or so after the Gathering, his supporters and his own debate performance convinced me I needed to give him a second look.
“Some people said ‘but well he said awful things about you, how can you support him?”
They complain that Carson has turned on the very values that brought him support and think Trump will let down evangelical community if he wins the Republican presidential nomination.
The religiously conservative Carson said that in talking with Trump he discovered that “there’s a lot more alignment, philosophically and spiritually, than I ever thought that there was”. I said, ‘This guy is unbelievable. “You are a great man, a man that I was praying would be our next president, but God has other plans and we must trust him and trust he is leading us down the right path”. And I worry: However qualified she may be, having an “unsuitable” opponent will make it easier for her to win – but also far more unsafe if she does not.
In other parts of Friday’s press conference, Ben Carson explained that his endorsement for Trump was really driven by “We the People”, or what the Republican voters wanted, and the belief that Trump is the best bet of stopping Hillary Clinton in November. I think it would fracture the party irreparably and it would hand the election to the Democrats and they would get two to four Supreme Court picks and America would be forever changed and that’s the big picture. Trump is a man who has repeatedly incited violence at his rallies, saying that protesters should be punched out and carried away on a stretcher, and promising to pay the legal bills of those who throw the punches.
Donald Trump is deplorable and embarrassing to the Republican Party for reasons that plenty of ink has already been spilled over. At first, he seemed to concur Friday with Carson’s assessment of his public persona vs. his private self. “We want to keep that kind of talent”. “I want the voice of the people to be heard”, Carson said. I don’t know what they see.
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Then he added, “That’s what we need a little bit more of”.
