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Two more candidates announce bids for 2016 US presidential race
Two
more candidates announce bids for 2016 US presidential race
Washington, May 5 The 2016 Republican presidential nomination race
has become crowded as two more candidates, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson and
former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Monday announced their candidacy for
presidency.
Fiorina, 60, announced her White House bid on Monday morning on her twitter
account with a campaign slogan "New Possibilities. Real Leadership"
on top of her campaign website, reports Xinhua.
As the first and most likely the only female contender in the Republican presidential
nomination, Fiorina in recent months has emerged as a vocal critic of the
powerful Democratic presidential candidate, former US Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, as Clinton was grappling with controversies surrounding her
State Department e-mail records and family foundation's acceptance of overseas
donations.
"She clearly is not trustworthy, about a whole set of things,"
Fiorina told the US TV network ABC news on Monday morning. "She hasn't
been transparent about her server and her emails, and now we see all of these
foreign government donations to the Clinton Global Initiative."
Carson, an African-American conservative known for his criticism of US
President Barack Obama's policies, also announced his plan to join the party's
fast-growing field Sunday in interviews with US media. His official campaigning
launch was held on Monday in his hometown of Detroit, the state of Michigan.
"I'm probably never going to be politically correct because I'm not a
politician," he told supporters at his Monday campaign rally in Detroit.
"I don't want to be a politician. Because politicians do what is
politically expedient -- I want to do what's right."
Like Fiorina, Carson has never held public office before. The two are now
joining three other GOP candidates -- Senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco
Rubio -- in a presidential nomination race that features younger and more
diverse faces than in recent years.