• Potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks to the media at the Arthur Outlaw Mobile Convention Center in Mobile, Alabama, on April 30. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon turned conservative star told a Florida TV station Sunday he will seek the Republican nomination for president. | MIKE BRANTLEY / AL.COM VIA AP
    Potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson speaks to the media at the Arthur Outlaw Mobile Convention Center in Mobile, Alabama, on April 30. Carson is a retired neurosurgeon turned conservative star told a Florida TV station Sunday he will seek the Republican nomination for president. | MIKE BRANTLEY / AL.COM VIA AP

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WASHINGTON – Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson told a Florida television station on Sunday that he is running for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.

“I’m willing to be part of the equation and, therefore, I’m announcing my candidacy for president of the United States of America,” Carson said in an interview with CBS affiliate WPEC-TV in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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