It’s one thing to think he’s going to drop out.
It’s another thing to act as if he is or already has and tell his voters to change their support as a result.
They both made a play on something they weren’t sure of, because they wanted to benefit. They exploited the new guy.
It wasn’t a good thing to do.
Well, he coulda blamed it on an intern...
Exactly.
A phone call to verify would have been the decent thing to do.
To pass along the CNN tweet to caucus goers is fine.
If somebody changed the tweet and then passed it on to caucus voters then that wouldn't be fine.