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Carson keeps losing, but he's not dropping out

Ben Carson is not ready to leave the race just yet, the retired neurosurgeon said Tuesday.

“You know, I listened to the voices of millions of Americans, and we still have millions of Americans who are saying on Facebook, you cannot leave us. We have to have a representative of honesty, integrity and somebody who is not a politician who just does things that are politically expedient," he said, speaking to supporters in Baltimore.

Remarking upon the "rotten to the core" state of affairs in American politics, Carson said that politicians on both sides have "weaved such a complex web, it will be very, very difficult to untangle it. "But I’m not ready to try to quit untangling it yet," he said to whoops and cheers.

At the time of Carson's speech, he'd placed last or near last in each of the states that had reported results.