The same day Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson threatened to leave the party over scheming to derail fellow candidate Donald Trump, the retired neurosurgeon said he would “never” mount a third-party run.

During a Friday afternoon call-in to Fox News, Carson said while he would consider going back to being an independent, he would not run against the Republican Party, a political strategy that frontrunner Trump has repeated threatened.

“I wouldn’t in any way try to destroy what was going on, but I would not want to be a part of the deception,” Carson said, referring to a report that Republican leaders were making plans for how to handle the July convention if Trump is still leading.