Ben Carson will reportedly endorse Donald Trump

Ben Carson and Donald Trump.
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Ben Carson will endorse Donald Trump on Friday, making the announcement at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, sources close to the former Republican presidential candidate say.

The sources, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Washington Post that the endorsement was finalized during a meeting Thursday morning between Trump and Carson at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. Sources close to the retired neurosurgeon told the Post that although Trump did call into question stories from Carson's past, he still views the Republican frontrunner as the GOP's best chance of winning a general election and luring previously apathetic voters to the polls.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.