With his poll numbers sinking, Dr. Ben Carson pulled a Trump and threatened to withdraw from the Republican Party.
Carson made his threat after reports surfaced that the GOP was considering a brokered Republican convention.
It didn’t get Carson a prime time platform on Fox News but he did get him the opening spot on Neil Cavuto’s Your World show Friday.
Cavuto introduced him as “the good doctor.”
Carson argued that whether or not he is the nominee, he doesn’t want “a bunch of establishment party bosses thwarting the will of the people.”
Cavuto said that the GOP denies “any cabal going on here.” Supposedly, the Republicans were merely discussing what to do if no one candidate had enough delegates to win the nomination going into the convention, “that they were not citing or targeting anyone.”
“If that’s the case, then why is it still secretive?” Carson asked.
“Well there is that,” Cavuto agreed.
Cavuto also asked if Carson would bolt if the party fights against Donald Trump getting the nomination should he win the most delegates or be on the verge of securing enough to get the nomination. “Is that the point that a Dr. Ben Carson says, ‘That’s it, I’m outta here?’”
“If it became clear that they were using various types of procedures to get around the will of the people, I would leave,” Carson said. He said he might “go back to being an independent” but would “never” run as a third party. Whoever the Republicans nominate would be better than Hillary Clinton, he thought.
Carson claimed it would bother him just as much if the GOP decided to rally around himself in order to thwart Trump. “If it was thwarting the will of the people, it wouldn’t matter whether I was the recipient or anybody else was the recipient, it’s the principle that I would be opposed to,” he told Cavuto.
“So this is not separately and cynically a ploy for attention on your part. I don’t mean to be disrespectful,” Cavuto assured us.
Get your popcorn ready and watch it below, from the December 11 Your World.