Ben Carson announced Friday morning that he is endorsing Donald Trump in the presidential race. The retired neurosurgeon's announcement at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, comes just a week after Carson suspended his own campaign as a Republican candidate.
"He is actually a very intelligent man who cares deeply about America," Carson said of Trump, dismissing the Republican frontrunner's previous jabs at him as "all political stuff" and saying they have since "buried the hatchet."
Trump says that Carson will be getting "very involved" in advising him on both education and healthcare.
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