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Ted Cruz Schools ABC on ‘Dirty Trick’ Claim
NewsBusters ^ | February 4, 2016 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 02/04/2016 10:47:52 AM PST by SoConPubbie

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To: SteveH

Rubio’s campaign was using the CNN information too, just like Cruz’s did.

The Carson campaign is clutching at straws.


61 posted on 02/04/2016 12:07:59 PM PST by Beagle8U (Don't settle for Bill de Blasio's NYC 'values'.)
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To: Souled_Out
Except the CNN story never said Carson was dropping out of the race, Ted did.

I have yet to have anyone post anything from Ted or from the campaign itself that said Carson was dropping out. The closest thing I have seen was the tweet from Steve King, which said it LOOKED like Carson was out. But all the Trumpkins keep posting that TED SAID BEN WAS OUT, as if repeating the lie over and over again will make it true. Sounds like they are taking after Goebbels.

62 posted on 02/04/2016 12:09:36 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: SteveH

Already saw that and saw it was the fox calling his traipsing around the henhouse as an innocent stroll in the neighborhood. It would be laughable if it wasn’t serious.


63 posted on 02/04/2016 12:10:18 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: CA Conservative

Trumpsters will always believe what they want to believe rather then the facts....just like their leader Trump.....it can’t be helped....when one is caught up in deception it’s not going to let go easily.


64 posted on 02/04/2016 12:13:26 PM PST by caww
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To: fireman15
Yes very nice... you take 2 tweets from a CNN reporter and ignore the last one in the series that said Carson was definitely not dropping out.

Even CNN ignored the tweet that said Carson was not dropping out. There were other tweets from other CNN accounts about Carson leaving the campaign trail AFTER Moody sent the tweet saying Carson was continuing after Iowa. They also had Dana Bash and Jake Tapper on air discussing the issue after that tweet, and neither one of them mentioned it! But you expect the Cruz campaign to be the only ones that caught the tweet that everyone else missed or ignored???

65 posted on 02/04/2016 12:13:43 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: DouglasKC
. No news story ever said Carson dropped out. Yet the Cruz spin is that they were "repeating" news stories.

Please provide any evidence that the Cruz campaign said Carson was "dropping out".

66 posted on 02/04/2016 12:15:05 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Hostage

I have yet to see evidence, that the Cruz campaign knew anything of the sort before the messages were sent.... I would very much be interested to see such evidence.... as I think most Cruz supporters would be. Stating that 4 voters per precinct would have had to vote other than Carson is ridiculous, because yes Trump would have won but Carson would have still languished in fourth place. Plus all indications are that Carson did better than expected, so it must not have hurt him that badly.


67 posted on 02/04/2016 12:15:21 PM PST by PA-LU Student (https://www.tedcruz.org/l/ducking-donald/)
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To: SoConPubbie

Not sure I get all the fuss. Trump had a “yuge” lead going in to Monday. He was going to schlong Cruz, Rubio and all the rest! Nobody had a prayer against the Donald. Now... shouldn’t he be more concerned about where all those supporters disappeared to rather than where he thinks any cold-footed Carson supporters ran off to?

Heck, if you can’t keep track of your own children, why worry about somebody else’s?


68 posted on 02/04/2016 12:15:24 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: CA Conservative

There are other messages on record by the Cruz camp that were sent to 1500 precinct captains AFTER they were informed the Carson rumor was false. They are caught red-handed and can’t get out of it.

Helicondelta has a detailed post of all the facts and messages.


69 posted on 02/04/2016 12:16:39 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: Hostage

What “other messages”? Did any of them say “Carson is out”, or did they say “Carson is taking a break from campaigning after Iowa”. Because one would be a lie and the other true, no matter when it was sent.


70 posted on 02/04/2016 12:18:30 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: PA-LU Student

#69

Look it up, research it, it’s all there. There is no excuse for not finding it if there is a sincere interest in finding it.


71 posted on 02/04/2016 12:19:46 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: CA Conservative
So Teds campaign VP does not speak for Ted?

Desperately searching for the meaning of is?

Clinton would be proud to be on the Cruz Team, splitting hairs is one of their favorite pastimes.

I have never heard, or read that Ted personally said Carson was dropping out.

72 posted on 02/04/2016 12:23:36 PM PST by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: Hostage

??


73 posted on 02/04/2016 12:24:03 PM PST by SteveH
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To: CA Conservative

The Carson camp said he would go home to Florida before moving on the NH. It was spun that he was ‘taking a break’, then it was spun that he was ‘quitting’.

No matter, the Carson message to the Cruz camp was unequivocal in that he was not quitting, and this message was transmitted and confirmed by the Cruz campaign chief BEFORE the same chief decided to cheat and send the spun ‘quitting’ version direct to the 1500 precinct captains without even going through his staff.

It’s very clear he saw an opportunity to take advantage of the confusion and in so doing revealed himself to be a scumbag.


74 posted on 02/04/2016 12:25:06 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: jstaff

See post 62


75 posted on 02/04/2016 12:25:38 PM PST by Souled_Out (Our hope is in the power of God working through the hearts of people.)
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To: Hostage; All

Are we now claiming that there was some vast right-wing conspiracy that was out to get Carson and Trump? Are we now claiming that CNN and Cruz conspired to throw the iowa caucuses? That Carson’s weak campaigning had no effect on his loss in iowa?


76 posted on 02/04/2016 12:27:08 PM PST by SteveH
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To: Hostage
The Carson camp said he would go home to Florida before moving on the NH.

No, that's not what they said at first. They said he was going home, and then to DC, and that he had no events scheduled in NH or SC.

send the spun 'quitting' version direct to the 1500 precinct captains without even going through his staff.

No one has yet posted this "quitting" version anywhere that I can find. Can you direct me to that? As a matter of fact, I have not seen the Carson message to the Cruz camp you refer to - where is that?

77 posted on 02/04/2016 12:28:40 PM PST by CA Conservative (Texan by birth, Californian by circumstance)
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To: Hostage

fake-painted-campaign-bus carson should be taken at his word at the eve of the iowa caucus election?

the same carson who lost his NH staff to cruz a few days ago?

the carson that whines to the press after receiving cruz’s public apology?

that carson??

just checking what you are asking for...


78 posted on 02/04/2016 12:30:58 PM PST by SteveH
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To: grania
Why isn't Heidi home with the kids, if they don't have a better solution to keep their lives as normal as possible?

My guesses:

1) She has a job outside of the home

2) The parents and kids thought it would be fun to have them on the campaign trail and good to show a happy family

3) It has been harder than all of them realized it would be

79 posted on 02/04/2016 12:31:33 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Hardly accurate to say his supporters just didn’t show up. They showed up plenty.

So did the anti-Trump voters. Plenty.

80 posted on 02/04/2016 12:32:40 PM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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