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President Donald Trump said Monday that Dr. Ben Carson told him during the 2016 Republican primary cycle that he would win the election that year because God wanted him to.

"He was a very tough opponent," Trump said, reflecting on the 2016 Republican primary election. "We were fighting it out, and we had actually 18 [sic] candidates, including me. And Ben came up to me right after the first debate. He said, ‘You know you're going to win, don't you?’"

The president spoke to the White House Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.

"And I said, ‘No, I don't know that. I think I'm going to win, but I don't know it,'" Trump said. "I had never done it before. They had all done it. They were

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