Retired neurosurgeon and former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson endorsed billionaire Donald Trump today, describing his former rival as “a very intelligent man.”
Carson made the endorsement at one of Trump’s clubs in Palm Beach, Florida.
“There are two different Donald Trumps,” Carson said in his endorsement.
“There’s the one you see on the stage, and there’s the one who’s is very cerebral, sits there, you can have a very good conversation with him.”
Carson praised Trump as “a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America.”
Carson said that the election is “not about me. It’s not about Donald Trump. It’s about America.”
The religiously conservative Carson said that in talking with Trump he discovered that “there’s a lot more alignment, philosophically and spiritually, than I ever thought that there was.”
Carson’s outsider campaign soared last year but ultimately fizzled as he stumbled over questions about the veracity of aspects of his compelling life story.