Ben Carson: 2016 election may not happen

Ben Carson

All that talk about the 2016 presidential race, Hillary Clinton's innuendoes, Rand Paul's ideas, Chris Christie's suggestions – may be all for naught.

There may not even be a 2016 president election, according to one man who is a likely contender.

"I hope that that is not going to be the case. But certainly there is the potential," said Dr. Ben Carson, who was director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital and became famous for his groundbreaking work in separating conjoined twins. He is now firmly established as a superstar among conservatives across America.

He was responding to a question from Fox News interviewer Chris Wallace, who quoted Carson's own statement that "there might not actually be elections in 2016..."

"Do you really believe that?" Wallace asked.

It is possible, said Carson, "because you have to recognize we have a rapidly increasing national debt, a very unstable financial foundation, and you have all of these things gong on, like the ISIS crisis, that could very rapidly change things that are going on in our nation. And unless we begin to deal with these things in a comprehensive way and a logical way, there's no telling what could happen in just a matter of a couple of years, and particularly in a situation where we have a Senate and a Senate leader who has over 300 bills sitting on his desk, [who] will not bring them to the floor for a vote."

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He described that as thwarting the will of the people and instead of having government conform to the people, having the people conform to the "will of the government."

As for his own candidacy, he said he'd rather be enjoying a retirement with ease. But Carson added, "Sometimes we're called to do things that we don't want to do because we have to do them. And we look at the future of our children, our grandchildren, all the people who come behind us, if we all run for the hills, if we all run for the most comfortable place, and just allow whatever to happen happen, then we get what we deserve."

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