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GOP Candidate Ben Carson Threatens to Leave Party

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi-
dential candidate Ben
Carson threatened Friday
to leave the Republican
Party in what would be a
nightmare scenario for the
party trying to recapture
the White House in 2016.
Carson, a retired neuro-
surgeon who strongly ap-
peals to many Christian
conservatives, surprised
the political world with his
emergence as a top con-
tender for the Republican

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Carson threatened Friday to leave the Republican
Party in what would be a nightmare scenario for the party trying to recapture the White House in 2016.

(AP Photo/Scott Morgan)

presidential nomination. ty’s nominee could make orthodox campaigns that didacy of Hillary Rodham
He has slipped in recent it all but impossible for the have tapped into voter Clinton. A third-party run by
polls behind front-runner Republican candidate to frustration with establish- Carson or Trump would be
Donald Trump, but an inde- win the general election ment politicians — a con- a worst-case scenario for
pendent bid that siphoned in November. Carson and trast with the Democratic the Republicans.
even a few percentage Trump have upended the side that has largely co-
points away from the par- Republican race with un- alesced behind the can- Continued on Page 3