Likely GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson spoke with Alan Colmes on Friday about his repeated claim that the U.S. may not have an election in 2016 because of the way Democrats are acting in office.
Carson said the election could be cancelled because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won’t “bring up these 358 bills that are sitting on his desk” to a vote, which of course has nothing to do with organizing a general election.
When Colmes pressed him on his remarks, Carson said the threat of ISIS and “envy” could bring about a situation where “there may be so much anarchy going on” that elections can’t be held.
Carson: If in fact we continue to have all these decrees being made the way they’re being made, if in fact we don’t fight the kind of war that needs to be fought in order to really put and end to the threat that is brought on ISIS, if we continue along a pathway of financial irresponsibility, if we continue along a path of envy, greed, hatred, what happened with Occupy Wall Street will be a cakewalk compared to what will begin to happen in this country.
Colmes: What do you mean though when you say there won’t be an election in 2016?
Carson: There may be so much anarchy going on.
Colmes: Anarchy? You think really risk having an anarchic America to the point where elections may be put on hold or some kind of emergency is declared with such anarchy that there wouldn’t be a presidential election in a couple of years.
Carson: I don’t want to find out, I really don’t want to find out. I don’t want to continue down this pathway that we are going down. This pathway where everything is framed in a political sense and our representatives are not working for the people, they’re working for their party.
Carson also insisted that President Obama is hiding his college records, suggesting that there was a conspiracy to get him into Columbia University since he was only a “mediocre” student at Occidental College.
As Fact Check notes, past presidents have similarly declined to release their college records, but Carson believes Obama is hiding something because the president “didn’t demonstrate a stellar academic record and yet the next thing you know he’s at Columbia University, which is an Ivy League institution, and it would be very nice to know how do you go from a relatively mediocre record at an average school to a prestigious Ivy League school. I think it would be interesting to know.”
Carson refused to say if he had his own theory regarding Obama’s academic career, just responding: “I think we should know what happened, it would be very interesting to know, it would be nice to know if any of those are the ways. I don’t know what happened, that’s why I’d like to see the records.”
“If they’re going to hide things, why should we trust them to represent us?” he continued. “If they have something to hide, there’s a reason that they’re hiding them. I have a reason to want to see the records.”
