Republican candidate Ben Carson has zero chance of ever seeing the inside of the Oval Office, according to a former senior advisor to President Barack Obama.
“No Democrat anywhere has spent any time worrying about Ben Carson becoming president of the United States,” Dan Pfeiffer wrote in a CNN op-ed published Tuesday. “I won’t waste your time or mine on him.”
Pfeiffer, who once served as Obama’s communications director, offered this grim assessment of Carson’s political future in a detailed run-down of how “Obama Democrats” see the GOP field. While he spent a considerable amount of time weighing the other candidates’ strengths and weaknesses, those two sentences were his entire take on Carson.
The retired pediatric neurosurgeon is holding steady in recent national polls, pulling ahead of billionaire mogul Donald Trump in a McClatchy-Marist survey released Tuesday. Yet his rise has been threatened by recent investigations into his biography, close ties to a medical supplement company, and academic record, details about which have been proven to be false.
Carson is set to face off against the other Republican candidates during Tuesday night’s Fox Business debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Dan… I’m not sure about that.
Given the inherent racism on the right, having Carson at the top would keep at least 10% of the right home (my guess) election day leading to an even larger landslide than I’d like to think we’ll see already. Without even factoring in how much of a lunatic he is (beyond the basic/required RWNJ lunacy).
That IS NOT Ben Carson’s photo on that ad!!!
Many people have told Dr. Carson he could be president. Now he will quit the race. He will write in future books that he turned down the offer to be president (all expenses paid, mind you) so that he could become an inspirational speaker and prank-victim-extraordinaire.