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Bill Bistrican called Ben Carson the smartest man in any room. | Getty Carson caucus backer: ‘When you think he's stroking out, he's thinking about 10,000 possibilities’

URBANDALE, Iowa — Not all caucus surrogates are as polished as Gov. Paul LePage or Marco Rubio. The man who spoke on behalf of Ben Carson joked that two professional politicians are a hard act to follow but he’s supporting Carson exactly because he’s not a professional politician.

Bill Bistrican called Carson the smartest man in any room. “When you think he's stroking out, he's thinking about 10,000 possibilities. Kind of like the guy on Limitless who's taking the pill,” he said, referring to the TV show.

“If Carson could speak like Marco he'd be at 80 percent!” he added. Bistrican declared Carson to be a candidate of the “heart” not the “head.”

“I want to vote with my heart," he said.