Rove’s endorsement pushes me toward Cruz.
Here is what the video said
RE: Cruz’s people took that speculation and passed it along as fact. That’s lying.
From your YOUTUBE VIDEO:
During CNN’s wall-to-wall coverage of the Iowa caucuses, Dana Bash shared breaking news from reporter Chris Moody that Carson would return home to Florida after the contest.
“Ben Carson is going to go back to Florida, to his home, regardless of how he does tonight here in Iowa. He’s going to go there for several days, and then afterwards, he’s not going to go to South Carolina, he’s not going to go to New Hampshire, he’s going to come to Washington D.C., and he’s going to do that because the National Prayer Breakfast is on Thursday,†she said.
NN’s Jake Tapper called the announcement from Carson “very unusual†and noted “almost every single candidate†would travel directly to New Hampshire after the caucuses.
“If you want to be President of the United States, you don’t go home to Florida,†Bash responded.
On Twitter, @TheLeadCNN told its 32,000 followers that Carson “will return to FL following #IAcaucus, will not go to either NH or SC.†The account for CNN’s politics section tweeted to 420,000 followers that the retired neurosurgeon “plans to take a break from campaigning.â€
7:50 p.m.: Carson camp clarifies he just has to go home for “fresh clothesâ€
Shortly before 8 p.m., a Carson spokesman tweeted the candidate was “not standing down†and was simply returning to Florida to “get fresh clothes†and dodge a winter storm in Iowa. The spokesman told TPM Carson would be in D.C. Wednesday and Thursday for a “campaign event,†and then would continue on to New Hampshire.
The campaign also disputed rumors that Carson’s trip to Florida was a mid-campaign vacation, which many read as a sign he would drop out.
Just as the Iowa caucuses were beginning, some users of the Cruz campaign’s official mobile app received a notification saying Carson was dropping out of the presidential race. The notification cited a report from CNN.
The alert said Carson “will stop campaigning after Iowa†and urged users to tell people at the caucuses “they should coalesce around the true conservative who will be in the race for the long haul: TED CRUZ!â€
It also included a photo of a TV tuned to CNN, showing the network’s ever-present “BREAKING NEWS†banner paired with the headline “Campaign: Carson To Take A Break After Iowa.â€
QUESTION: Was this an intent to LIE? Or was this simply repeating in a somewhat different wording, what CNN Originally reported?
This is what the Cruz campaign wrote: “CNN is reporting that Ben Carson will stop campaigning after Iowa....â€
How different is the above from this original CNN tweet:
“Ben Carson is going to go back to Florida, to his home, regardless of how he does tonight here in Iowa. He’s going to go there for several days, and then afterwards, he’s not going to go to South Carolina, he’s not going to go to New Hampshire....�
The wording is different but the idea is the same.
CNN was the source of this and the Cruz campaign simply repeated what CNN said.