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A man helping campaign for U.S. Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson has died after being injured in a car accident in Iowa on Tuesday, according to a statement from a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska, released by Carson's campaign. Campaign volunteer Braden Joplin, 25, died in Nebraska Medical Center after being admitted in critical condition following the accident in Atlantic, Iowa, the statement said.

"Dr. Ben Carson was one of two sons born to Sonya Carson, a single mother who had married Ben's father at thirteen years of age. Ben's father was a bigamist, and after learning of his other family, Sonya resolved to raise her two sons alone. Though in poverty, and though she herself had no formal education beyond third grade, she insisted that her sons devote diligent efforts to their education. She required that the boys read books from the public library each week and write lengthy reports for her (which she would review for them to support their effort, despite...