Dr. Ben Carson announced his presidential campaign as anticipated Sunday, but he did so using a bizarre medium.
The GOP presidential candidate made official his run for the White House during an exclusive interview with local Ohio television station WKRC-TV.
“I’m willing to be part of the equation and therefore, I’m announcing my candidacy for President of the United States of America,” Carson told the station’s national correspondent Jeff Barnd.
He insisted that “many people” have beckoned him to run for president despite the fact that he is a retired neurosurgeon and not a politician.
“I began to ask myself why are people clamoring for me to do this? I represented a lot of the same thoughts that they have,” Carson explained. “I’m not 100 percent sure ‘politics as usual’ is going to save us. I think we are in a severe problem … a problematic situation.”
Despite his lack of political experience, Carson has been doing fairly well among other GOP contenders in national polls. He also emerged as the surprise favorite among conservative Millennials in the Harvard University Institute of Politics poll released last week, albeit by a very slim margin.
