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Ben Carson, left, talks with Donald Trump before announcing he will endorse Trump at the Mar-A-Lago Club on Friday in Palm Beach, Fla. | AP Photo Carson: GOP establishment tactics are 'disgusting and despicable'

Ben Carson says that the tactics the establishment of the Republican Party is using to try to derail Donald Trump are “disgusting and despicable.”

Carson rushed to endorse Trump, he told WABC Radio host Rita Cosby on Friday, because he feared that GOP elites' last-ditch efforts to stop him might succeed.

“I would call them disgusting and despicable, and I just hope that we can get some real leadership and not only the Republican Party, I mean Democrats, too,” Carson said. Asked why he endorsed Trump so quickly, he said that "seeing the intensity of activities by the political establishment against him, I began to realize that there was a good chance that they would succeed in derailing him and if that happened basically we've give the country over to socialists."

"There's no way I could sit there in good conscience and let that happen," Carson said.

Most people are more focused on who is on "Dancing with the Stars" than on what is going on in the country, he lamented.

Cosby asked Carson whether he’d consider a position as vice president.

"I won't completely rule it out,” he said, but revealed that he was looking more at an advisory role.

Carson said he’s talked to Trump about some of his rhetoric and reinforced “the importance of appearing presidential.”

“I think he tried to do that last night,” Carson said, adding that Trump received the advice “graciously.”

Carson, who endorsed Trump during a neews conference Friday morning, said he had spoken to the other candidates by phone over the past week.

Before meeting with Trump to seal the deal on Thursday, Carson said, he was “already leaning in that direction.”