Inside Ben Carson's quiet surge

Chattanooga (WDEF) – The man who just tied Donald Trump in an Iowa poll is coming to Chattanooga in October. Dr. Ben Carson will sign copies of his new book A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties.

Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has emerged as a leading Republican presidential candidate in Iowa and is closing in on frontrunner Donald Trump in the state that hosts the first 2016 nomination balloting contest.

When he retired last year after three decades of neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, Ben Carson bought an organ. Carson has the money to buy a nice one. As he acknowledged in an address at last month's Conservative 

Ben Carson is mounting the first real challenge to Donald Trump's supremacy in the Republican presidential field, so what will happen when Trump inevitably.

Given his history of bizarre utterances, it should not come as a surprise that Ben Carson gave a speech on the steps of the Arkansas Capitol in Little Rock on Thursday that made somewhere between little and no sense.