Ben Carson believes 'it's just a matter of time' before voters come to their senses and flock to him

Ben Carson has gone 4-8-6-4 in the primaries and caucuses so far, but he’s staying in the race because it’s just a matter of time before voters come to their senses and things start looking up:

“I believe that things are starting to happen here,” Carson said during a speech as results for the Nevada caucuses came in. Early results had him polling in a distant fourth place behind Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz.

“What will eventually happen is that the people, we the people will actually want to hear real solutions,” Carson said. “It’s just a matter of time before they start demanding answers, and start demanding solutions but now we’re sort of in the ancient Rome stage where everyone wanted to go to the Coliseum, bring on the lions and tigers, see them eat the eagle.’”

Just keep waiting, doing the same thing … eventually people will just sort of magically come around. You know, maybe some of the same people who propelled Carson to second place in national polls last fall—and then apparently came around to not supporting him.

Carson also engaged in some hilarious goalpost-moving, issuing a statement saying that “We’ve barely finished the first inning and there’s a lot of game left.” But back before the South Carolina primary, when Iowa and New Hampshire were the only states that had voted, Carson said that “It's a nine-inning game, we don't call it after the second inning.” Now, after two more states have voted, Carson’s take is that “we’ve barely finished the first inning” rather than that four innings have been played. That’s what we call hilariously delusional.