Carson: Black Voters ‘Waking up’ to GOP

Ben Carson on Saturday said African-American voters are “waking up” to the possibility of supporting GOP candidates for office like himself.

“I think there’s a lot of people who are waking up,” the neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate said at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa.

“I met with a group of black pastors yesterday and people are waking up in droves,” he continued. “I think they’re realizing what’s been happening here.”

Carson said he converted to the Republican Party after growing up and going to school in Democratic strongholds during the Reagan administration.

“I started listening to Ronald Reagan … and I said he doesn’t doesn’t sound like that,” he said, noting he had heard horror stories about conservatives during his entire upbringing. (Read more from “Carson: Black Voters ‘Waking up’ to GOP” HERE)

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