Posted on 02/20/2016 11:24:11 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Carson reportedly met privately in a storage closet Thursday night in Greenville to try and cool relations between the two campaigns ahead of the primary here. But the clandestine meeting allegedly did not go well.
Cruz called the meeting, The Daily Beast reports, to smooth over what has been a contentious public spat with the Carson campaign ever since the Iowa caucus. Carson accused Cruz of using dirty campaign tactics after one of Cruz's staffers saw a CNN report and told voters Carson was dropping out of the race right before voting started in Iowa.
The meeting, which the Carson campaign confirmed to The Beast, took place prior to the Conservative Review convention and lasted nearly 25 minutes despite Carson only agreeing to five minutes, a source said. It took so long Carson was late to his speaking arrangement during the convention.
"We weren't going to comment to the press on it, but it seems pretty clear that the other party involved had a different agenda," Jason Osborne, a spokesperson for Carson's campaign told The Beast. "How else could we perceive that to be?"
Osborne said that "the meeting did not go well" and was on short notice, so he didn't have time to prepare Carson.
The former neurosurgeon reportedly told Cruz "we agree to disagree." As Carson put it, "we disagree on accountability and culpability," according to Osborne.
The meeting apparently had no chairs and it's even unclear if the lights were on in the closet as Secret Service waited outside.
After speaking to the convention, Carson crossed paths with Cruz in a hallway, and the Texas senator reportedly didn't even look at Carson, his campaign said.
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Carson is simply losing his mind.
WHAT??? Why are they talking about this right now?
I still think Ben wants to sell books and the primary is a gold mine for him. Ben Carson is just awesome.
“Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Carson reportedly met privately in a storage closet...”
Tell me this is a joke, because it’s funny. What is the punchline?
“Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Carson reportedly met privately in a storage closet...”
Tell me this is a joke, because it’s funny. What is the punchline?
who gives a #### about Carson? somebody buy him a hammer and send him home.
Don’t even get the point of this article.
Carson has almost no votes that would help anyone if his pathetic sleep inducing campaign ended.
Cruz cornered Carson into a closet? And then caused him to be late?
Cruz was alone with Carson in a closet for a half hour. It didn’t go well.
Ben Carson is just a spoiler for the Trump Campaign at this point.
Ted needs to be careful, Carson is handy with a hammer.
I’d give you a punchline, but I might get banned for it. XD
2 Closethians
Ted wore two belts.
"Mom and Dad, Ted Cruz is in my closet and he won't come out!"
I cannot wait to hear the details.
Will somebody please tell Cruz to STOP apologizing to Carson ..??
Carson obviously does not want to be forgiving .. so leave it alone.
And .. for what it’s worth .. this action by Dr. Carson has totally soured me on him. He actually started the whole rumor by himself; CNN added the suspense; Rubio picked it up and then the rest of the candidates picked it up.
THEN, WHY IS CRUZ APOLOGIZING .. I’m getting angry over how Dr. Carson is acting; and he’s supposed to be this huge Christian .. I don’t think so.
See, Cruz cant even handle Carson in the closet, how does he expect to handle Hilary in the debates?
No, he didn’t corner Carson. He asked to meet him on neutral ground and the storage closet was close by or something like that.
So both Cruz AND Carson came out of the closet!?
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