Cruz did apologize.
There is no textual evidence that the Cruz campaign “ignored it”
Here is what CNN writes:
“Cruz Iowa staffer Spence Rogers also suggested in an email to precinct captains that Carson may be announcing the end of his campaign next week.”
That is absolutely reasonable speculation and SHOULD be said to caucus voters.The lack of seriousness is quite evident— especially in the ongoing effort to spin this as something other than Carson’s missteps.
There is textual evidence that multiple campaigns reported the relevant fact that Carson planned to go home to Florida and not go to NH or SC.
That is relevant and should be reported.
The effort to pretend that Cruz was doing something malicious is dishonest.
The careful effort of the Carson campaign to implicate Cruz as unchristian while giving a pass to the direct slander issued from Trump against Carson is absurd.
Carson signaled disinterest in the campaign in iowa and NH and Sc. That is relevant and should have been presented to Caucus voters.
I think it is unethical to suggest otherwise.
Timing and content of the tweets is everything.
1. Supposedly the initial Cruz campaign tweet came out at 7 pm. They claimed that CNN was saying that Carson was taking a break and would have a big announcement later in the week. This was untrue. CNN did not say Carson was taking a break, nor did they say there would be a big announcement.
2. Carson responded by 7:53 that no, he was staying in. They were going to S Carolina and NH.
3. At 8:20, the national co-chairman of the Cruz campaign, Steve King, tweeted out that it looks like Carson is getting out of the race. THis went out to ALL of the precinct captains. They knew at that point it was absolutely not true.
Cruz later tried to say the tweets just went out to “our team” ....where most people would think it was just staff, when instead it went to 15-1600 precinct captains