Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is in the Bay area Tuesday.

Carson began the day at a Mayor's Prayer breakfast in Clearwater for the YMCA of the Suncoast.

Tuesday afternoon, he will sign copies of his book, A More Perfect Union, at the Carrollwood Barnes and Noble on Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa. That appearance is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.

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Around 6 p.m. he will be at the Lakeland Books-A-Million on Town Center Drive for another book signing.

On Monday, Carson made a stop in the GOP hotbed The Villages.

Hundreds turned out to see Carson, a retired neurosurgeon sign books there.

In an exclusive Florida Decides presidential poll released Tuesday, Carson is trailing Donald Trump 37 percent to 17 percent among state GOP voters.