In a statement issued mid-debate, CNN proclaimed:
What Senator Cruz said tonight in the debate is categorically false. CNN never corrected its reporting because CNN never had anything to correct. The Cruz campaign’s actions the night of the Iowa caucuses had nothing to do with CNN’s reporting. The fact that Senator Cruz continues to knowingly mislead the voters about this is astonishing.
This was a hail-mary trap set by Car$on, and he forced it to work. If nobody had taken the bait we’d never have heard of him after Iowa.
Nice Post: MUST READING for the Trumpateers and Trumpettes.
Cruz not really a frontrunner
Thanks for posting!!
Great clear, concise, analytical article!
Has anyone actually spoken to any voters who claim that they walked into the booth intending to vote for Carson but voted for either Cruz or Rubio instead? I have yet to see any video of that.
Take a look at Carson's own website under Events. (Note that there are no events listed for NH or SC)
https://www.bencarson.com/events
https://www.bencarson.com/events/san-diego-county-organizational-meeting
The only event listed is:
San Diego County Organizational Meeting
Feb-11-2016
Denny's Conference Room (No Host Dinner)
4280 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, California 92117
The Ben Carson for President campaign invites you to a grass roots, organizational meeting.
I guess it takes a full two weeks to pick up some clean laundry.
BTW - if you plan on going to the above event, make sure you eat beforehand because as noted there is "No Host Dinner".
I also want to point out that Carson in Iowa was polling at anywhere from 9% to 10% and finished at 9.3%. Well within the +/- margin of error and just where he was expected to finish.
Don't get me wrong. Like Katie Kiefer I have a great respect for Carson as a surgeon and for his remarkable life story and accomplishments including becoming the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins hospital at the age of 32, even as Trump tried to say much of Carson's story was a lie and that Carson was pathological and no different from a pedophile and that Carson was just an "OK" doctor, only hired one nurse....
I grew up in Baltimore and became aware of Carson and his accomplishments as a surgeon well before he entered the national stage.
I never met the man in person but did see him talking to the parents of a very young child upon who Carson and his surgical team had just operated on for a massive brain tumor. I was in the OR waiting room at Johns Hopkins Hospital, waiting for my father to come out of surgery for a triple by-pass in 1997.
I saw Dr. Carson (and recognized him) in his scrubs when he walked into the waiting room and sit down and talk to the parents. I certainly wasn't trying to overhear anything but the waiting room was rather small so it couldn't be helped.
Dr. Carson so impressed me with his gentleness and kindness and humbleness as he gave them the good news about the surgery but also told them their child had a long road to complete recovery.
He held the hands of the child's parents and prayed with them and then hugged them.
A great and gifted surgeon but not IMO POTUS material from what I've seen of his campaign and on many of the very important issues.
He might however make a good Surgeon General or head of the VA. And he shouldn't burn bridges if that's what he wants. Perhaps that's why he's allowing Trump to cozy up to him now after Trump's very vile and unfounded insults against him, and if that is the case, then IMO Carson should stay retired and continue to do things that can do some good like the Carson Scholars project.
Cruz guy Jeff Roe was involved in another campaign where someone was to have dropped out
Carson only recently became a politician but he is one. Anyone (seriously) running for office is a politician by definition.
To Trump it came naturally, not so for Carson, as his amateurish campaign has shown.