Mike Huckabee, Carly Fiorina to join Ben Carson in GOP presidential race

Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson are joining the GOP presidential race on Monday
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Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson effectively announced his bid for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on a local TV show on Sunday. He won't be the new candidate on the block for long: On Monday, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina will announce her candidacy, followed a day later by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. This will be Huckabee's second run for the GOP nomination, and the first bid by Carson and Fiorina.

Neither Carson nor Fiorina have ever held elected office, though Fiorina ran unsuccessfully for a U.S. Senate seat in California in 2010. Fiorina is expected to stake her campaign on her stint at HP — a notion many in Silicon Valley find odd, The Guardian notes — and on her gender being an asset in an expected contest with Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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Peter Weber, The Week US

Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.