(THE HILL) — After spending more than $10 million in a failed bid to make Ben Carson president, the main super-PAC supporting the retired neurosurgeon is now transforming itself into a big-money vehicle designed to make Carson Donald Trump's vice presidential pick.
The goal, says the pro-Carson super-PAC's founder, John Philip Sousa IV, is for Carson to provide moral guidance to the billionaire New York real estate developer and Republican presidential front-runner.
"President Trump will need the wise counsel and moral compass of Dr. Ben Carson," Sousa wrote in an email to super-PAC supporters Monday afternoon.
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