Carson campaign chair: We don’t have a path to victory

Ben Carson’s campaign chairman says he does not know how Carson can win the GOP presidential nomination.

“Well, we clearly don’t know. We don’t have a well-defined path to victory,” Bob Dees told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday

{mosads}”But we think the opportunity still exists for people to wake up, and that’s what we’re hoping.”

Dees said the campaign is hoping people gravitate toward Carson before it’s too late.

“Thomas Jefferson talked about that. He said that democracy depends on well-informed voters,” he said.

“He also said that he thought America would go down this path and the people would be manipulated [but] just before it was too late, people would wake up and regain their senses and start doing the right thing. We are hopeful that that occurs, and that along the way, people start doing the right thing.”

Carson has said in the past that he plans to stay in the race despite low poll numbers and having won few delegates.

The candidate said Tuesday that Republican officials have asked him to suspend his campaign. But he said that going into Super Tuesday, people could “awaken and recognize that just what they were asking for is what I have presented for them.”