Ben Carson Is Donald Trump VP 'Frontrunner,' Viral Rumor Claims

Ben Carson Is Donald Trump VP ‘Frontrunner,’ Viral Rumor Claims

Former HUD Secretary Ben Carson endorses Republican presidential candidate former U.S. President Donald Trump throughout a marketing campaign occasion with the previous president on October 29, 2023, in Sioux Metropolis, Iowa. | Supply: Scott Olson / Getty

As it seemingly turns into all however a foregone conclusion that Donald Trump will win the Republican presidential nomination, an nameless “supply” has claimed to know who the election-denying, four-times indicted alleged fraudster is contemplating to be his vice presidential working mate.

In response to the Calvin Coolidge Challenge, a self-described “grass-roots motion which seeks to develop, amongst conservative and libertarian Republicans, an ethos of mental self-discipline,” former Housing and City Improvement (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson is on the prime of Trump’s listing.

With out offering any proof of its declare, the Calvin Coolidge Challenge posted Wednesday evening on the particular media app previously referred to as Twitter {that a} “supply who’s acquainted with President Trump’s considering tells me that @RealBenCarson is the main frontrunner to be his Vice President alternative in 2024 right now.”

Because of this, Ben Carson’s identify was among the many prime trending matters on social media.

As of early Thursday afternoon, the put up had been favored practically 4,000 occasions with a whole bunch of customers reporting the unconfirmed report as if it was truth.

Carson, for his half, has been far much less coy concerning the 2024 election, readily endorsing Trump final month at a rally in Iowa.

Calling Trump “my good friend and your good friend, and a good friend of America,” Carson regurgitated MAGA speaking factors that argued in favor of electing the person underneath a gag order in his civil fraud trial in New York for allegedly inflating the price of his namesake firm.

Carson has been constant in his lauding assist of Trump. Final yr, through the notorious U.S. Senate race in Georgia that includes the Trump-endorsed dropping candidate Herschel Walker, Carson stated assaults on the would-be politician are like slavery in that they’re “meant to divide the Black neighborhood.”

Carson additionally notably took umbrage at President Joe Biden’s acknowledged intentions to appoint a Black lady to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom earlier than making good on his promise with Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Blaming such a choice on “identification politics,” Carson fails to acknowledge that if chosen by Trump to be his working mate, such a choice would probably be made to offset persistent claims of anti-Black racism with optics of a racially numerous Republican presidential ticket.

It might additionally pit Kamala Harris, the primary Black vp, in opposition to Carson in a tactic that might find yourself siphoning assist from a Black voters that polls present is more and more straying from Democrats.

In response to the newest presidential ballot, Biden and Trump are closely favored to win their get together’s respective nominations. However concerning a head-to-head rematch of the 2020 election, the Messenger/Harris ballot carried out by HarrisX and launched on Thursday gave Trump the sting by 4 share factors.

That is America.