Carson: ‘Not wise’ to engage in name-calling

Ben Carson on Sunday said he doesn’t support the recent name-calling between the major-party presidential nominees.

{mosads}”It’s not wise to engage in the name-calling at all,” Carson said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” in response to a question about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump calling his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, a bigot.

“Hillary Clinton is calling him a racist, trying to associate him with the Ku Klux Klan.”

Carson, a strong supporter of the Republican nominee and a former GOP presidential candidate, went on to say the KKK came from the Democratic Party. He said the Democratic Party was the party of slavery and discrimination, before turning to the record of the Republican Party.

“Who was the party that pushed through the civil rights legislation and voting rights? That was the Republicans,” Carson said.

“They were established as an abolitionist party. And the Democrats come along and say, ‘Yea, yea, I know, but it all switched and the Democrats became the Republicans and the Republicans became the Democrats.’ What a total lie. There’s no evidence of that whatsoever.”

Carson continued to slam the Democratic Party, but he said it’s important to talk about the issues facing this country. He said the name-calling is detracting from the bigger issues that need to be addressed.

“The issues that face America are gigantic, and they’re going to have a big impact,” Carson said.

“And this election is so vitally important, because it’s two completely different philosophies.”