{"id":198262,"date":"2016-03-12T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T06:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=198262"},"modified":"2016-03-12T06:00:45","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T06:00:45","slug":"ben-carson-confirms-backing-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=198262","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson confirms backing for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Former Republican hopeful Ben Carson has confirmed his support for his former rival and front-runner Donald Trump in the US presidential race.<\/p>\n<p>He made the endorsement at a joint news conference in Florida with Mr Trump, ahead of primaries there on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The winner of the Republican nomination will face Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders for the Democrats, in November.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Carson is the second former candidate to endorse Mr Trump after New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>A retired neurosurgeon, Mr Carson was an early favourite but dropped out last week after failing to gain significant popular support.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement came a day after an elderly white man was charged with assault for allegedly punching a young protester during a rally for Mr Trump in North Carolina on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage taken by bystanders shows John McGraw, 78, apparently hitting 26-year-old Rakeem Jones as he was being escorted away by police.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican hopeful Ben Carson has confirmed his support for his former rival and front-runner Donald Trump in the US presidential race. He made the endorsement at a joint news conference in Florida with Mr Trump, ahead of primaries there on Tuesday. The winner of the Republican nomination will face Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}