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Ben Carson Makes South Florida Swing

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson passed through South Florida on Thursday as part of a book signing tour.

Carson promoted his new book, "A More Perfect Union: What We the People Can Do to Reclaim Our Constitutional Liberties," from Kendall to Fort Lauderdale and ending in Boca Raton.

"I'll wait whatever it takes," said Larry Bozanic.

People waited in line four to five hours for the Republican presidential frontrunner to arrive at the Boca Costco.

"I think he's the future of our country," said supporter Lois Edwards.

"I think it's great that we have someone outside the political spectrum to take the government back," said Bozanic.

But Carson's foreign policy prowess has come under fire of late, with some saying a brain surgeon might not be cut out for the White House.

Carson stumbled though during an interview with the Miami Herald. When asked about U.S. Cuban immigrant policy commonly referred to as 'wet foot dry foot', Carson confessed he needed further explanation and further investigation before making an opinion.

"There are a lot of policies that I would like knowledge of. I'm gaining knowledge of them by I don't by any stretch of the imagination confess to know everything," said Carson.

Despite the stumble, many Cuban-Americans waiting in line for his autograph said Carson is the type of candidate they'd vote for.

"He's basically got all of my ideas for this country," said supporter Delia Montoro. "We want somebody who is not 'establishment', we want somebody new with fresh ideas. We want somebody to go out there and really do for the country."

Rhina Maloon, a Democrat who said she would vote for Carson, found the lack of policy not a big deal.

"I don't think so. I don't think so. I think he will bring the change if he's elected," said Maloon. "He's very inspirational."

In the latest Quinnipiac University poll of like Republican voters, Donald Trump held the lead with 24-percent, followed by Carson with 23-percent and Senator Marco Rubio a distant third with 14-percent. Sixty three-percent indicated they were undecided.

"The governor, been there done that. And as far for Senator Marco Rubio, too young. It's not his time yet," said Montoro.

Carson attended another book signing session at the Barnes and Noble, at 2051 N Federal Highway in Ft. Lauderdale, at 4 p.m.

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon who lives in West Palm Beach, will wrap the day in Boca Raton with another book signing at a Costco.

Carson's book tour will take him to 38 cities in ten states.

On Wednesday, Carson made stops in Naples where he re-affirmed a statement that he made earlier that the pyramids in Egypt were built by Joseph to store grain instead of being constructed as the final resting places of pharaohs.

The subject came up when Buzzfeed published a 1998 commencement speech delivered by Carson at Andrews University, a college founded by Seventh-day Adventists, according to CBS News.

"My own personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain," Carson said. "Now all the archaeologists think that they were made for the pharaohs' graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big if you stop and think about it. And I don't think it'd just disappear over the course of time to store that much grain."

On Wednesday, Carson reiterated that "the pyramids were made in a way that they had hermetically sealed compartments. You would need that if you were trying to preserve grain for a long period of time."

In the Bible, during the seven years of 'plenty', Joseph stored up grain "in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure." According to the story, he then fed Egypt and the rest of the world during the seven years of drought that followed.

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