Carson to Trump: Stop calling Clinton names

Ben Carson on Friday said Donald Trump should tone down his personal attacks against Hillary Clinton.

“I don’t generally get into the name-calling thing,” he told The Daily Beast. “I kind of left that behind in the third grade.”

{mosads}Carson said he disagrees with Trump’s assertion earlier this week Clinton is a “bigot” who exploits minority voters.

“That’s what people do who don’t have anything to talk about,” he said of hurling insults on the campaign trail. “I certainly don’t encourage it, because the issues that we’re facing are incredibly important for us and for the future generations.”

Carson, who lost the GOP presidential nomination to Trump, said he admires the candidates overall efforts at making inroads with black voters, however.

“The important thing is that he has started the process,” he said of Trump.

“As you know, the Republican Party has been relatively missing in action when it comes to reaching out to minorities in recent decades,” added Carson, who supports Trump’s campaign.

“I think particularly in the African-American community, a large number of people recognize that the Democrats have not done diddly squat for them. But they don’t feel that they have any other place to go.”

Carson added that Trump can raise his stock with minorities by taking a more hands-on approach with their needs.

“This is something that he’s going to focus on,” said Carson, who is black. “Now that people understand that, as he goes into the communities, I think their interests will be piqued.”

Clinton and Trump are escalating their war of words over race as they make their pitch to minority voters before the general presidential election.

Trump on Wednesday slammed the Democratic nominee as “a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future.”

“She’s going to do nothing for African-Americans, she’s going to do nothing for Hispanics,” he said in Jackson, Miss.

Clinton on Thursday retaliated by arguing Trump represents a “radical fringe” aggravating the nation’s racial tensions.

“Of course, there’s always been a paranoid fringe in our politics, steeped in racial resentment,” she said in Reno, Nev. “But it’s never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it a national megaphone — until now.”