Former President Donald Trump has received another big endorsement, this time from his one-time secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson announced over the weekend he is supporting Trump for the 2024 nomination, saying he’s uniquely situated to save what’s left of the country after four years of Joe Biden’s disastrous policies.

The Daily Wire noted:

Carson, who ran for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 2016 and subsequently served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for nearly four years in the Trump administration, gave the GOP frontrunner his “most confident and full endorsement” while introducing him at a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa. 

“Benjamin Franklin was asked in 1787 after they finished the Constitutional Convention, ‘Sir, what do we have here? A monarchy or a republic?’ He said, ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’ The way we can keep it is we can put Donald J. Trump back in office,” Carson told rally-goers.

🚨 Dr. Ben Carson endorses Donald Trump for President in 2024

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Carlson went on to rip the Biden regime’s embrace of lawlessness along the U.S. border with Mexico and told the enthusiastic crowd that under Trump, the border was secure. He also said it’s a near-certainty that terrorists have crossed into the U.S. among the millions of migrants Biden has allowed into the country, joking that it would be “terrorist malpractice” if they were not already planning attacks.

Carlson also praised Trump’s record on energy, his protection of free speech, and lower inflation which kept prices for consumer goods, food, and gasoline manageable for most Americans. He also said that, during his own 2016 presidential campaign, he found that though most Americans have “common sense,” they don’t always have the “courage” to speak out.

“But one man had the courage to take on the political establishment and give the people a voice in Washington, with no concern about what it would cost him,” Carson said. “Donald Trump lost millions, if not billions of dollars. And he’s been attacked constantly and demonized, and yet, he’s still there.

“They haven’t gotten rid of him. They’re trying to do everything in their power to get rid of him. Because he’s the biggest threat to the administrative state and to the swamp — I don’t call it a swamp, I call it a cesspool,” Carson added.