Do Conservative Republicans Prefer Hillary to Donald Trump? #GOPe
Conservative Ben Carson Does’nt, He will Endorse Trump Friday.
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, who recently left the race for the Republican presidential nomination, will endorse Donald Trump on Friday morning, according to The Washington Post.
Two people familiar with Carson’s thinking confirmed the endorsement to The Post, which notes that it would be the “most high-profile nod” for Trump since former candidate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie endorsed the frontrunner.
Carson reportedly met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, his resort in Florida where the announcement will take place. Carson has “gradually come to see Trump as the GOP’s best chance of winning a general election and turning out droves of disengaged voters,” according to the Post.
Carson told Fox News earlier in the day that he was leaning toward endorsing Trump, calling him a “thinking individual.”
The endorsement may come as a surprise considering the difference in tone between Carson and Trump. Carson became known for his calm demeanor and refusal to get in the “mud” of politics, as his business manager Armstrong Williams once said.
Will Donald Trump force Republicans to admit it is Him or Hillary Clinton?
Here’s a truth partisans are not supposed to admit: Whether the president is a Democrat or Republican, America usually remains more or less the same place.
Policy changes matter, and therefore it matters who wins elections.
But the institutions that underlie our government and our society matter more than which party steers those institutions at a given time.
Because of this truth, there are more important things than which party wins a presidential election. Leaders who threaten to undermine those fundamental institutions — even if they are within your own party — are worse than normal politicians from the other party. But that’s a damaging admission that party-loyal politicians really, really prefer not to have to make.
The Donald Trump campaign is like an experiment — seeing whether a GOP candidate can be so manifestly threatening to the institutions that prevent American society from falling apart that he will get Republican officials to admit there are worse outcomes than electing Hillary Clinton. A Vote for Cruz is a vote for hillary!