Ben Carson's ex-manager: Trump's going to win

Barry Bennett, Ben Carson's former campaign manager.

Barry Bennett, who resigned his role as campaign manager for Ben Carson a few days ago, just issued a somewhat shocking prediction on the winner of the Republican Party presidential primary – and it's not his former employer, but rather Donald Trump.

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"All you've got to do is compare the size of everyone's rallies," he said, during an interview with CNN. "Donald Trump is having ten-, twelve-thousand people show up at rallies, and a lot of these guys are having five or six people show up at their events in Iowa."

Bennett said "unless something cataclysmic happens," Trump was slated to win the primary nod.

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"The establishment can fret about it all they want," he said, Bloomberg reported, "but this is the new reality."

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Bennett, as WND reported, resigned along with Doug Watts, communications director for Carson, amid growing dissatisfaction with the direction of the campaign. In a joint statement, the two said they continue to "respect the candidate" and "wish him and his campaign the best of luck."

Still, Carson's polls have suffered dramatically in recent weeks, dropping from 29 percent in one poll in October to barely 11 percent in December.

And according to Bennett, those numbers aren't headed up any time soon.

Despite all the money the campaign's spent on targeted efforts and get-out-the-vote initiatives, Bennett said "it's getting harder and harder to see how Donald Trump isn't our nominee," Politico reported.

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And perhaps that's not a bad thing, he suggested.

"Well, I think Ben Carson has the best head and the best heart," he said, during the interview. "[But] I'm a realist, and I believe in data, I believe in polls. And I have not seen a plan out there that is going to take down Donald Trump quite yet."