Carson Says He’d ‘Never’ Run Third Party Hours After Threatening To Leave GOP

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks during a rally Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at West Memphis High School in West Memphis, Ark. (Nikki Boertman/The Commercial Appeal via AP)
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The same day Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson threatened to leave the party over scheming to derail fellow candidate Donald Trump, the retired neurosurgeon said he would “never” mount a third-party run.

During a Friday afternoon call-in to Fox News, Carson said while he would consider going back to being an independent, he would not run against the Republican Party, a political strategy that frontrunner Trump has repeated threatened.

“I wouldn’t in any way try to destroy what was going on, but I would not want to be a part of the deception,” Carson said, referring to a report that Republican leaders were making plans for how to handle the July convention if Trump is still leading.

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  1. while he would consider going back to being an independent, he would not run against the Republican party

    How would that work?

  2. This guy can’t even handle getting out of the race without fucking it up.

  3. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    One pill makes you larger
    And one pill makes you small
    And the ones that mother gives you
    Don’t do anything at all
    Go ask Alice
    When she’s ten feet tall

    And if you go chasing rabbits
    And you know you’re going to fall
    Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
    Has given you the call
    To call Alice
    When she was just small

    –jefferson airplane/white-rabbit

  4. But he is fine with deceptions like hawking quak cancer cure medicines and trying to appear sane.

  5. Life in the fast lane
    Surely makes you lose your mind

    -Eagles

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