GOP candidates appeal for votes as election nears

GOP candidates appeal for votes as election nears

EASLEY, S.C. — Ben Carson made a last-minute play for votes in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary by mocking a recent meeting between Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and outspoken liberal minister Al Sharpton.

In a new Carson radio ad, an announcer calls Sanders “another liberal politician pandering to an African-American just to get votes” and asks what Sharpton has “done to ease the plight of African- Americans.”

The announcer says Carson “knows first-hand what it takes to overcome poverty and racial violence” and believes that “government dependence yields more poverty, broken homes, crime and incarceration.”