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Ben Carson speaks during an election night party in Baltimore on Super Tuesday. | AP Photo Carson films video message to his 'haters'

Ben Carson has a message "to the haters" who want him to quit the Republican race for president: This is America, "the home of the brave."

The retired neurosurgeon appeared in a one-minute video posted by the Independent Journal Review on Wednesday, seated in an armchair next to a side table and a lamp, in which he calmly explained his rationale for remaining a candidate, even after a series of disappointing finishes on Super Tuesday left him far behind in the overall delegate count.

Here is @RealBenCarson's response to people telling him to drop out of the race https://t.co/0pHKSiL1b2 via @injo — Justin Green (@JGreenDC) March 2, 2016



"This is what we should be thinking about. Sometimes you’re gonna face opposition and sometimes you’re going to find people with whom you disagree," said Carson in the video, titled "Dear Haters: featuring Dr. Ben Carson."

"But what good does it do try to hate that person, to try to destroy that person, when in fact, we have other people outside like radical Islamic terrorists, who would like to destroy us?" he asked.

"We, as Americans, can and must do better than that. We have a process, an electoral process," Carson continued. "That is a process that I’m in the process of following and will continue to follow and will continue to listen to our millions of supporters and we’ll act accordingly.”

Armstrong Williams, a longtime friend of Carson's, told POLITICO earlier Wednesday that the candidate has "no pathway" to the nomination but that is not the reason for him staying in the mix. "It could be next week, it could be today. It is his decision," Williams said of Carson's thinking on an exit.