Retired US neurosurgeon Ben Carson announced on Sunday that he is seeking the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.

Ben Carson Seeks Republican Presidential Nomination

He made it official, telling a crowd in his hometown of Detroit that he’s running for president.

“I’m Ben Carson, and I’m a candidate for president of the United States,”

Carson, an African American who grew up poor in Detroit rose to become a chief pediatric neurosurgery at the prestigious Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, added his name to the widening field.

He joins Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio, who are already seeking to take the party’s standard in the 2016 election.

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Also seen as likely to run are former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

Across the aisle, one of America’s most liberal senators, Vermont’s Bernie Sanders, said this week that he will seek the Democratic presidential nomination, in a challenge to Hillary Clinton from the party’s left flank.

Clinton, the only Democrat to have officially announced her candidacy so far, signaled her intent to run earlier this month.

Carson is so far the only African-American presidential candidate from either party.

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Oh how i wish techocrats and pple who their works and legacy speaks volume for them are those we can find in our country Nija instead we find pple who have nothing to offer parading themselves and making empty promises.

Nice one Ben carson.

FTC8-)