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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.

this is the ORIGINAL tweet from the cruz campaign which nobody is talking about because it was deleted, all three of them. Gabriel is Cruz' PR director ... this was sent a 7:02. The word out is capitalized.

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Here is some more info on Gabriel.

Ex-CIA agent leads new team of journalists in Cuba

Gabriel helped pioneer the use of social media in war-fighting and political conflict, and he was an early advocate for incorporating social media metrics into predictive intelligence and risk analysis. He is a subject matter expert and original researcher of interactive digital media strategies, social network analysis, international media research, text analytics, latent semantic indexing, strategic planning techniques, operational and organizational design, and complex system dynamics.

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.

Yes they did. He’s the video of them saying it.

https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/02/levin-trump-took-a-baseball-bat-to-carson-before-defending-him-today