Failed presidential candidate and Donald Trump supporter Ben Carson wandered away from live interview this weekend as he remembered in a moment of panic that he had forgotten his luggage.
The moment occurred Saturday as Carson, who grew up in Detroit, campaigned in the Motor City with the GOP nominee.
“We just saw Mr. Trump here and I asked him how did it go and he said ‘Great.’ He said he learned a lot of things. What do you think he took away from today?” CNN’s Jeremy Diamond asked the retired neurosurgeon.
Carson’s countenance fell and he became visibly concerned. Then it hit him.
“Oh! My luggage. Um, hold on,” he said as he walked away from the camera crew.
Diamond, smiling, was left suddenly to fill in the airtime with impromptu banter. Carson returned shortly thereafter and nonchalantly resumed his interview with the CNN reporter.
Carson’s appearance with Trump in Detroit comes as the Republican candidate’s campaign continues its efforts to court the black vote.
The GOP nominee’s main pitch to the African-American community had been to ask: “What do you have to lose?”
On Saturday, Trump spoke at the Great Faith International Ministries in Detroit, and promised his predominantly African-American audience that he’d make their neighborhoods wealthier and safer.
“Now in these hard times for our country, let us turn again to our Christian heritage to lift up the soul of our nation,” Trump said. “I am so deeply grateful to be here today. And it is my prayer that America of tomorrow, and I mean that, that the America of tomorrow will be one of unity, togetherness and peace — and perhaps we can add the word prosperity.”
He also promised to usher in a new era of post-racial harmony.
“I fully understand that the African-American community has suffered from discrimination,” the Republican presidential nominee told his audience. “And that there are many wrongs that must still be made right. They will be made right.”
