If the Iowa caucuses were honestly tabulated, the one thing that is perfectly clear is that polls were way off, so you cannot claim Carson did not lose votes by Cruz campaign lies. What the Cruz people did is absolutely Romney-esque! By the way, all it would take for that lie to benefit Cruz and cause Trump to lose, is a change of only FOUR votes per caucus. On the other hand, if the polls were accurate, then there had to be massive cheating in the tabulation of the ballots. Either way, the victory was stolen from Mr. Trump!
The argument isn’t that Cruz didn’t benefit, the argument is that Cruz won because of it.
But that is not supported by basic math. Cruz won by 6,000 votes. There is no chance that those votes were all going to Carson.
You know there are 5 Stages of Loss and Grief, you’re on number 1 - Denial and Isolation