Ben Carson Sees No Political Path Forward After Super Tuesday
Ben Carson said Wednesday that he will skip the next Republican debate and that he no longer sees a viable path to the nomination. Carson said in a statement that he will skip Thursday's Fox Republican debate in his hometown of Detroit, despite qualifying for it. "I do not see a political path forward in light of last evening's Super Tuesday primary results," the retired neurosurgeon said in the statement. Carson's decision to skip the debate comes after a string of disappointments for his campaign. Despite briefly rising to the top of the polls in the fall, Carson has not won a single state and garnered just three delegates from Virginia on Super Tuesday. But he stopped short of formally suspending his campaign "This grassroots movement on behalf of "We the People" will continue  I appreciate the support, financial and otherwise, from all corners of America. Gratefully, my campaign decisions are not constrained by finances rather by what is in the best interests of the American people.", Carson's Wednesday statement says he will discuss his future plans in a speech on Friday in Washington, D.C. Carson reportedly told fellow GOP candidate Gov. John Kasich that he will be suspending his campaign.