Monday’s announcement events signal Carson will embrace his heritage and profile as an African American Republican.<\/p>\n
He’ll start the day with a breakfast with local pastors at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, then will attend an assembly at a science-focused high school bearing his name. The day culminates in his official announcement event, at the Detroit Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts, where his campaign has teased an expected audience of 2,000.<\/p>\n
Carson is planning to head to Iowa after he announces for a three-day swing intended to cultivate support in what’s likely to be a make-or-break state for him. Iowa’s evangelical conservatives offer fertile ground for Carson’s message, and he’ll likely need to place in the top third of the field to prove his candidacy is viable.<\/p>\n
But the prospect of failure doesn’t seem to faze Carson anyway. He’s often said that he’s only looking at the race because he’s gotten strong encouragement from supporters and a nudge from God \u2014 not because he actually covets the White House.<\/p>\n
If he lost, he recently told the magazine of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, “I would say ‘Whew!'”<\/p>\n
“Because it’s not something I ever really wanted to do, and the only reason I’d consider it is because there’s so many people across the nation clamoring for me to do it,” he added.<\/p>\n
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