Former presidential hopeful Ben Carson says he loves Harriet Tubman but just isn't that into her as a $20 bill cover portrait.

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"I love Harriet Tubman. I love what she did," he said during an interview with Fox anchor Neil Cavuto. "But we can find another way to honor her. Maybe a $2 bill?"

That would be news to the folks at Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson. If you stop by the gift shop after touring the estate of the author of the Declaration of Independence, third president of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia and pay with cash, the change you receive might include this $2 portrait:

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