Most likely bet on that tweet: Gabriel did speak to Carson’s NH staff which had just quit Carson’s campaign the day before, to join Cruz’s campaign - probably because Carson let them know he was going to announce his resignation this week and they wanted their effort to not be wasted (they said in their resignation statement that they wanted their efforts to go to someone who could win). I suspect that these former Carson staffers told Cruz’s people what Carson had told them and Gabriel tweeted that Carson’s NH people had confirmed that he was getting out of the race.
Cruz’s staff probably mentioned to their internal people an upcoming Carson “big announcement” based on that.
But then Carson changed his mind about letting the public know he was not going to campaign in NH or SC (which, as CNN said, everybody knows is the action of somebody who is about to quit). I think Carson wanted to find out how the IA vote would come out if people still thought he was in it. So he said he was just going to FL to get some new clothes and rest. He STILL doesn’t have any campaign events scheduled for anywhere.
And then he blamed Cruz for noticing what CNN had reported, which they had gotten from Carson himself.
And here we are. Everybody calling Cruz a lying snake and Trump saying the results are skewed because of a news report whose factual claims are still easily seen as true, based on Carson’s own campaign website.
You know very well CNN did NOT say the words “suspended his campaign”. They said they thought it odd he had left the state.
Where was the confirmation? Isn’t Cruz the smartest boy in the room? Where was his confirmation? It’s not like his operators didn’t know Carson’s number.
Political thuggery gets approval at FR. Unbelievable.
TRUMP 2016