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First runner-up to Conservative of the Year 2023

Ben Carson
Ben Carson official portrait.jpg
17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
From: March 2, 2017 – present
President Donald Trump
Predecessor Julian Castro
Successor Incumbent (no successor)
Information
Party Democrat (before 1981)
Republican (1981 – 1999)
Independent (1999 – 2014)
Republican (2014 – present)
Spouse(s) Candy Carson
Religion Seventh-day Adventist (see also: Ben Carson's religious views)

Benjamin Solomon "Ben" Carson, M.D. (born September 18, 1951), is an American physician and politician who served as the 17th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Republican President Donald Trump. He is a widely admired conservative who was a candidate for the Republican nomination for president in the 2016 election.[1] Carson finished a strong fourth in the CPAC straw poll in 2015. Carson, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Huckabee were the only presidential candidates willing to speak the truth against the homosexual agenda.

In August 2015, Ben Carson rebuked the liberal media and "dismisses 'anchor-babies' controversy as 'silly'": “We need to talk about the actual issue and stop getting pulled off into the weeds and saying, 'you can't use this term, you can't use that term.'"[2]

Earlier photo of Carson

Carson is a former Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He has since retired from medical practice. Carson rose to national political attention for his remarks criticizing Obama at the February 2013 National Prayer Breakfast. Carson had previously received publicity for being portrayed in the television movie Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Among many conservative positions, Carson favors charter schools as part of a school choice program, saying that competition keeps schools from becoming complacent.[3]

With his wife Candy, Ben Carson wrote the best-seller: America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great in 2013 and also a best-seller in 2014, which remained a best-seller among U.S. politics books in 2015: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future.

He is described by liberal "comedian" Chelsea Handler as a "black white supremacist."[4]

In May 2016, the SPLC apologized to Ben Carson after placing the then-potential Republican presidential candidate on its "Extremist Watch List" — which is mostly made up of hate groups and white supremacists — for allegedly being "anti-gay."[5]

Quote

"America became a great nation early on not because of politicians but because of people who encouraged hard work, creativity, and innovation." (August 6, 2015).

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References

  1. ↑ "Carson, Fiorina launch 2016 bids as diversity of GOP field grows" (May 4, 2015). Fox News website/Politics/Republicans.
  2. ↑ Herb, Jeremy (August 23, 2015). "Carson dismisses 'anchor-babies' controversy as 'silly'" (August 23, 2015). Politico website.
  3. ↑ Richter, Greg and Bachman, John (April 14, 2013). "Ben Carson: Attacks only making me more determined". Newsmax website.
  4. ↑ https://www.infowars.com/chelsea-handler-calls-ben-carson-a-black-white-supremacist/
  5. ↑ Jessica Chasmar, Joe Schoffstall. Assault on conservative groups: 10 things you need to know about Southern Poverty Law CenterAssault on conservative groups: 10 things you need to know about Southern Poverty Law Center, Fox News, June 9, 2023.
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