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 has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.