Whoa. You touched upon another aspect. It was Cruz's hired staff that sent out the emails about Carson, as first described "taking a leave of absence" from campaigning, which Carson did plan on doing and did eventually do.
Then,in a follow-up message to the first one, something was said in a nearly inaudible recording about "dropping out" of the race, which may have included the word "temporary".
There is no real evidence Cruz actually gained much of anything in the way of votes because of the messages. We have freepers who were present at caucus sites -- none of whom so far as I know received a word of those email messages and tweets. I've come across five so far who were there.
Outside of that, has there been a single person come forward saying something along lines of "I was all set to provide caucus support to Carson only, but those tweets was what changed my mind into supporting Cruz and I now regret it"? There would need to be hundreds of people who would fall into category of being able to say that, if "Cruz lied" and "pulled a dirty trick" or else Trump would have won Iowa, etc, if what Trump supporters have been frequently saying about it was true (instead what many Trump supporters have been saying be a pack of lies, itself!)
Where are all these people who were alleged to have been mislead? We've not heard a peep out of any of them.
The Cruz campaign got that the basic gist of the news from CNN, then passed it on in the forms which they did.
None of that equaled quote-unquote "lying".
But somehow that has been twisted up and blown up/exaggerated into being Cruz himself having told lies.
That final result has been a lie that Trump supporters have been trying to get mileage out of, in effort to kneecap Cruz.
And you have the temerity to call Cruz supporters slimy?
Are you from the DNC too, or are you one of those that the likes of a famous Vladimer, and Uncle Joe would call "useful"?
Can't you see what's happening here?
There is no way Her Herness the Hildabeast could win general election unless the Republican camp is guided into self-destruction.
That hardly refutes my claim that Cruz's staff is sliming him.