There was nothing sleazy about making sure potential Carson voters knew about the news reports that their guy was going home to Florida rather than continuing on to campaign in NH and SC. It is perfectly legal and expected in a caucus to lobby voters to switch their votes to your candidate. Cruz’s people believed based on the CNN reports that Carson was either about to suspend his campaign or at least quit actively campaigning. Thus they urged Carson supporters to support a conservative candidate who was going to fight for the nomination rather than wasting their votes. There is nothing unethical in that.
Re: your post 35. IN my opinion a candidate having this information and not using it to his advantage would amount to malpractice. Of course you are going to use every advantage there is. They are there to win. It irks me to no end that not one word has been said about Rubio using the exact information. If Cruz’s people hadn’t jumped on this I would have thought they were stupid!