Former Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is warning against a third party bid in the U.S. presidential election this November in protest against the candidacy of presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump because it would only lead to Democratic bet Hillary Clinton claiming the White House.
"America right now is like a cruise ship that is about to go off of Niagara Falls with tremendous carnage and death," Carson told Fox & Friends during an interview on Monday.
To stop this from happening, the former neurosurgeon said the American people should "first recognize the problem, stop the ship, turn it around and then move in the other direction."
Carson was commenting on the move taken by the Libertarian Party, which is led by former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson and Massachusetts Gov. William Weld. The party hopes to lure voters away from Trump and Clinton in November on the contention that both are disliked by the masses.
But Carson does not think the Libertarian Party's plan to foist a third presidential candidate is a good idea because it would ultimately lead to the loss of the GOP. "I'm hoping that whoever that third party candidate is will stop for a moment and think about what the implications are of allowing Hillary Clinton or someone like her to get in there," Carson said.
"They get two to four Supreme Court picks and completely change the nature of this country and destroy the prospects for their children and their grandchildren to have the same opportunities that they had," he added.
The Libertarian Party was officially founded in 1971 and is known as the third largest party in the U.S., according to The Indian Express. It considers itself to be "more culturally liberal" than the Democrats and "more fiscally conservative" than the Republicans.
Back in 2012, it garnered one percent of the general election votes against President Barack Obama from the Democratic Party and Republican bet Mitt Romney.
