After finishing a very distant fourth in Iowa and eighth in New Hampshire, is Ben Carson feeling any pressure to drop out of the Republican presidential primary? Quite the opposite!
“I’m getting a lot of pressure to stay in the race,” the retired neurosurgeon added. "I respect that and I’m not just going to walk away from the millions of people supporting me.”
MILLIONS of people, fewer than 25,000 of whom have voted for him. If you added up Carson’s Iowa and New Hampshire votes, the total would have been good for sixth place in New Hampshire and making his Iowa fourth place a little closer. Currently, he’s polling in fifth in South Carolina. Millions of people may at one point or another have claimed to support Carson, but he peaked and his moment passed and those millions of people don’t look likely to materialize to support him by doing anything wild and crazy like voting for him.
No, I think the pressure Carson is getting to stay in the race comes from two places: his own ego, and the people profiting from his high fundraising and sky-high burn rate.