Ben Carson to Newsmax: I 'Absolutely' Have Enough Money to Stay in the Race

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson told Newsmax TV on Wednesday that he "absolutely" has enough money to continue his campaign and that he would remain in the race "as long as we have support of millions of Americans, both emotionally and financially."

"Those are the things that are important," the retired pediatric neurosurgeon told "The Hard Line" host Ed Berliner. "What you have to recognize about a political race is that it is similar to an All-American pastime, baseball.

"You don't call the game after the second inning," Carson added. "A lot of people want to call it after the second inning, but you don't."


He said that any wariness evangelical voters in South Carolina had about front-runner Donald Trump was based on fears about the direction in which the nation was heading.

"People are so desperate at this stage," Carson told Berliner. "They're so frightened about our future and the future of our children — and they see such little responsiveness from the government that they're willing to overlook things that they might not overlook otherwise."

Carson reiterated his position that Muslims are schizophrenic because their belief in Sharia law "is not comparable with our Constitution and with our ways.

"I don't know how you can accept both of those things without being schizophrenic, that's what I'm saying," he said. "You can't go in both directions at the same time."

President Barack Obama is going to "nominate someone" to succeed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Carson told Berliner. "There's no question about that.

"If, for some strange reason, he nominates someone who is a true constitutionalist and a fair jurist, I wouldn't have any problem looking at that.

"But the likelihood of him doing that, being the ideologue that he is, is relatively small."