Republican candidate Ben Carson has endorsed onetime rival Donald Trump, boosting the tycoon ahead of what could be the decisive week in the race for the party’s presidential nomination.
The retired neurosurgeon joined Mr Trump in a news conference on Friday morning at the real estate tycoon’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. More after the cut…

Mr Carson said: “I’ve come to know Donald Trump over the last few years. He is actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America. “There’s two different Donald Trumps. There’s the one you see on the stage and there’s the one who’s very cerebral.”

He said he had “buried the hatchet” with the real estate magnate over their scathing campaign clashes. Mr Trump, 69, mentioned during Thursday night’s televised Republican debate that Mr Carson would be backing him. Mr Carson halted his own White House campaign last week after failing to win a single primary contest, though he remains popular with evangelical voters.
Mr Carson, 64, briefly leapfrogged Mr Trump in opinion polls earlier in the Republican campaign. But voters deserted him after a series of missteps and following vicious attacks by Mr Trump on his character, accusing him of lying about his autobiography.
In a blistering barrage, Mr Trump had said his onetime rival was a “pathological liar” and even compared him to a child molester. Mr Carson turned the other cheek and said: “Pray for him.” Asked about the past personal attacks on Friday, Mr Trump shrugged and said: “It’s a tough business, politics.”
As political newcomers who launched unlikely insurgent challenges against establishment candidates, they are in some way natural bedfellows. Mr Carson is the second former Republican presidential candidate to officially back Mr Trump, following New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s imprimatur last month.
The endorsement is a blow to Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who has been in a tug-of-war with Mr Trump for the evangelical vote. Mr Carson announced last week that he is to chair an organisation that works on turning out the Christian vote. Mr Trump is leading ahead of next Tuesday’s Republican primaries in Ohio and Florida when he could all but sew up the party’s nomination. He has been appealing to Republican grandees, who remain wary that he could lead the party into oblivion in November’s election, to unite behind him.


http://www.gistexpression.net/2016/03/dr-ben-carson-endorsement-trump-his.html

Just saw it on Al Jazeera now. Trump for President!

Go trump go

We re behind u

That terrorist Obama and his supporters must be kick out of white house

It is like this election is turning the Trumps way,my fellow Naija you betta dey send money home befor this guy freeze your account and send you packing

Am freaking disappointed

game of intetest

Game of interest, Carson had been promised a juicy portfolio

Politics.

Team Trump

Trump's lack of temperament will cause so many problems in America and abroad - gosh, I can't wait !

Better to endorse Trump than Ted Cruz.

I hate to love this guy trump. Like I said last week that Americans can't give us a Buhari and then turn around and say no to trump.


This one I give it to Donald Trump the German American. Muslims, terrorists and fraudsters beware.

Atigba:
Go trump go
We re behind u
That terrorist Obama and his supporters must be kick out of white house

Why are Nigerians so stupid like this? Is t so hard to grab a book or find articles online? Someone who is balance racist to all groups, except for whites is being endorse by a black person in Nigeria. Something who called blacks something akin to animals. M
Grab a textbook please. Because he's anti Muslim, bigotry Nigerians are supporting this doofus, not knowing he's just as anti black.

To brainwash blacks to start newslavery won't be hard at all.

0YorubaParapo0:


Why are Nigerians so stupid like this? Is t so hard to grab a book or find articles online? Someone who is balance racist to all groups, except for whites is being endorse by a black person in Nigeria. Something who called blacks something akin to animals. M
Grab a textbook please. Because he's anti Muslim, bigotry Nigerians are supporting this doofus, not knowing he's just as anti black.

To brainwash blacks to start newslavery won't be hard at all.

Trump is a racist, yes.
Racism is generational in the Trump family, from their business practices to the Apprentice show.

AAs are solidly behind Hilary because of this.

Hmmmm

Americans will make the biggest mistake of their lives if they vote in trump! Trump is just like buhari the bastard! The only difference is that, he is not a pretender like the daura..dullard who presented nepa bill as certificate

0YorubaParapo0:


Why are Nigerians so stupid like this? Is t so hard to grab a book or find articles online? Someone who is balance racist to all groups, except for whites is being endorse by a black person in Nigeria. Something who called blacks something akin to animals. M
Grab a textbook please. Because he's anti Muslim, bigotry Nigerians are supporting this doofus, not knowing he's just as anti black.

To brainwash blacks to start newslavery won't be hard at all.

I don't discuss with ignorant bleeps like u

Show me a video where trump made such assertions or

Show me one thing Obama has done for the black race

Obama is funding terrorists all over the world with US tax payer money

Look at what he did in Egypt

Look at what he is doing in Syria

He destroyed the last empire standing in Africa..Libya

The weapons he shifted to rebels in Libya proliferate into mali and north east Nigeria that took hundreds of thousands lifes and destroyed billions of properties


TRUMP IS THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN KICK THIS BAST'ARD OUT OF WHITE HOUSE

trump has done more for Africa America than Obama and that beac'h Hilary combined

Trump employed thousands of blacks in America and he is going to do more for Africa American

0YorubaParapo0:


Why are Nigerians so stupid like this? Is t so hard to grab a book or find articles online? Someone who is balance racist to all groups, except for whites is being endorse by a black person in Nigeria. Something who called blacks something akin to animals. M
Grab a textbook please. Because he's anti Muslim, bigotry Nigerians are supporting this doofus, not knowing he's just as anti black.

To brainwash blacks to start newslavery won't be hard at all.

can u pls tell me one tin this man has said about blacks that is not true?

It is hard for Trump not to be president

Ben carson is clueless when it comes to politics. I wish Bernie will win. #bernie sanders

Ben Carson is the most stupiid black in U.S...I can say that a thousand times

Ben Carson didn't want to go quietly into the night...so he created some controversy on the way out.

Third world war loading, trump vs putin

I hope this Trump guy dsnt win o, that's trouble for Africa

Lol @ "cerebral side".
Can't believe this.
This is a man I've admired since I read 'Gifted Hands' at 8 years.
It's disappointing.

I'm surprised to see comments in support of Trump on a Nigerian forum. I think that's even more disappointing.

Are we sure this is not a tactical and calculated move by Carson.

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stevecantrell:
Ben Carson didn't want to go quietly into the night...so he created some controversy on the way out.

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BlaqCoffee109:
hey

Yo !

stevecantrell:

Yo !

by our checklist, why u not in bed?

BlaqCoffee109:
by our checklist, why u not in bed?

Friday night insomnia...