--- title: Ben Carson Will Skip the Next Republican Debate description: Ben Carson said Wednesday that he will skip the next Republican debate and that he no longer sees a viable path to the nomination. canonical: https://time.com/4245202/ben-carson-path-forward-campaign/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-02T19:17:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T17:05:54.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ben Carson Will Skip the Next Republican Debate og:description: "I do not see a political path forward" og:url: https://time.com/4245202/ben-carson-path-forward-campaign/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc650a8214d89802f/69887de4cd1bbaf2a06ff754/ben-carson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Fox News Sponsors Republican Presidential Candidate Debate Ahead Of Iowa Caucuses og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ben Carson Will Skip the Next Republican Debate twitter:description: "I do not see a political path forward" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc650a8214d89802f/69887de4cd1bbaf2a06ff754/ben-carson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ben Carson Sees No 'Political Path Forward' After Super Tuesday > Sponsored content. 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TIME Raw: Ben Carson Says ‘Pray’ for Donald Trump_  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:05 PM UTCPublished: Mar 2, 2016 7:17 PM UTC  Ben Carson talks to a member of the media in the spin room following the Republican presidential candidate debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 28, 2016. Ben Carson talks to a member of the media in the spin room following the Republican presidential candidate debate in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 28, 2016.Daniel Acker—Bloomberg/Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Updated: Dec 13, 2023 5:05 PM UTCPublished: Mar 2, 2016 7:17 PM UTC Ben Carson said Wednesday that he will skip the next Republican debate and that he no longer sees a viable path to the nomination. Carson said in a statement that he will skip Thursday’s Fox Republican debate in his hometown of Detroit, despite qualifying for it. “I do not see a political path forward in light of last evening’s Super Tuesday primary results,” the retired neurosurgeon said in the statement. Carson’s decision to skip the debate comes after a string of disappointments for his campaign. Despite briefly rising to the top of the polls in the fall, Carson has not won a single state and garnered just three delegates from Virginia on Super Tuesday. But he stopped short of formally suspending his campaign: “This grassroots movement on behalf of “We the People” will continue … I appreciate the support, financial and otherwise, from all corners of America. Gratefully, my campaign decisions are not constrained by finances; rather by what is in the best interests of the American people.” Carson’s Wednesday statement says he will discuss his future plans in a speech on Friday in Washington, D.C. 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