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« on: October 28, 2015, 07:49:28 pm »
Ben Carson ends campaign after disastrous primary results
Long-time frontrunner Ben Carson has announced that he would end his campaign to become president after bad primary results. Experts believe that his statements concerning the assassination attempt on former candidate Donald Trump have caused his bad performance.
Looking only at the past months' poll numbers, noone would have expected these results for Republican hopeful Ben Carson. After only receiving 1.6 percent of the otes in South Carolina's primary and a similar result in Nevada's caucus, he finished even behind outside candidates such as Mike Huckabee. As a result, Ben Carson suspended his campaign immediately.
Many observers believe that the bad results may be due to Carson's comment on the terrorist attack on Donald Trump last month. Carson stated that he was "disappointed" in Trump: in the opinion of the neurosurgeon, Trump is to blame for the deaths of two bystanders that were shot while the terrorists tried to kill Trump.
"If Trump had stepped forward and had assaulted the attackers immediately, fewer people would have been hurt", said Carson in a debate following the attack. His contenders have criticized Carson harshly for these words - Chris Christie for instance called the statement "despicable" - but Carson has not backed down. In a later interview, he even added: "In a way, what happened is fortunate. We all know now that Trump does not possess the courage it takes to become commander-in-chief."
Carson's demise opens the Republican field widely. With only days left before Super Tuesday, it remains completely unclear who will take the win.
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