Like I've been saying every time I see people wonder about this, Carson has the low information stupid vote, the kind that likes Christian sounding platitudes and which every 4 years screws us over by propping weak candidates up who inevitably lose to RINOs.
I've met a few of these loathsome people, and their whole spiel consists of telling us about Ben Carson's character and his Christian bonafides. They don't care about policy and don't know much about it!
By the way, Carson is in the SDA, who have such goofy positions as: Satan will inevitably bear all our sins; hell fire is not eternal; the wicked simply cease to exist; and of course their founder was a real prophet with extra-biblical world changing revelation. (Amongst other stuff.)
Agree with you. The Democrats are not the only ones with a monopoly on stupid voters. The voters who base everything on bible verses and religious tests irritate the hell out of me and there are quite a few out there.
He gets support from people who don’t like Trump but don’t want another Bush.
And, as others have noted, they tend to be people who aren’t real interested in policy or political “inside baseball”, they don’t like politicians, they just want someone they think they can trust.
In other words, the kind of people who Trump attracts, but who don’t like Trump, go for Carson. Even so, I suspect that most of Carson’s supporters will go to Trump if he bows out.