Posted on 02/01/2016 9:14:18 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans
Edited on 02/01/2016 9:19:35 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The Carson camp claimed Cruz's team spread false rumors at caucus sites that Carson had dropped out.
Ben Carson was incensed as the results of Monday night's Iowa caucuses rolled in, accusing the winner of spreading falsehoods about him at caucus sites.
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From Time Mag....
Ben Carson was incensed as the results of Monday night’s Iowa caucuses rolled in, accusing the winner of spreading falsehoods about him at caucus sites.
Carson’s team claimed that Cruz’s campaign deliberately sent emails to supporters to spread false rumors at caucus sites that Carson had dropped out, so his supporters would caucus for other candidates.
“That is really quite a dirty trick,” Carson said speaking to reporters at the end of the evening. “That’s the very kind of thing that irritated me enough to get into this quagmire.”
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“To have campaigns come out and send emails to their caucus speakers suggesting that Dr. Carson was doing anything but moving forward after tonight is the lowest of low in American politics,” said Carson campaign manager Ed Brookover.
“This is horseshit,” Rob Taylor, Iowa state representative and Carson’s Iowa co-chair, said simply.
Members of Carson’s team furnished evidence of various precinct captains alleging misconduct by the Cruz campaign.
Ryan Rhodes, Carson’s Iowa state director, showed reporters a text on his phone from Barbara Heki, a Mike Huckabee supporter. “The Cruz speakers at our caucus announced Carson was suspending his campaign for a while after caucus. They did this before the vote. Same thing happened at another caucus. Sounds like slimy Cruzing to me,” the text read.
Jason Osborne, Carson’s deputy senior strategist, read aloud another missive, this one an email from their precinct chair in Muscatine: “The guy speaking for Ted Cruz right before the vote, he was supposed to be done, he announced that there was a story on CNN that Ben Carson was taking a break after Iowa, and then stated, ‘So you might want to rethink wasting your vote on him.’”
http://time.com/4203730/ben-carson-ted-cruz-caucus-dirty-tricks/
You always miss the point. This was unethical behavior. Furthermore, the consequences influenced others’ votes among the remaking candidates. Trump may have won. At this point, no one will ever know.
Yes... this is the “moral” candidate. The “Christian” candidate. The “true conservative”.
/S
Carson’s missed votes may have been cast to Trump or Rubio.
That brings up something I’ve been meaning to mention. Yeah 2008 Huckabee wins and goes basically no-where. But in 2012, we will never know who actually won. The first count had Romney winning. Second count had Santorum by 35 votes. But the head of the Iowa GOP resigned after admitting that votes were lost and that we would never know the official vote tally.
In this circus, anything is possible.
The campaign is pointing a tweet from Rep. Steve King, who endorsed Cruz, as evidence. The tweet was sent at 8:20pm EST, when Iowans were already at caucus sites.
Carson looks like he is out. Iowans need to know before they vote. Most will go to Cruz, I hope. https://t.co/lW5Js50EMA
— Steve King (@SteveKingIA) February 2, 2016
King was retweeting a report that the doctor was heading to Florida for a day. Carson said earlier in the night he was going home to grab some “fresh clothes,” but told reporters not to read into it.
http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/carson-other-campaigns-sabotaged-us-dirty-tricks
Excellent observation and apparently proof of Cruz’s shenanigans. Too bad so many here don’t have a clue.
There is nothing unethical about mentioning a breaking news story on CNN. If Carson is not taking his own campaign seriously then his supporters deserve to know that a vote for Carson is a wasted vote.
It does matter. Suppose that 4+% went to Trump?
Why would he bother? This smells to high heaven.
Close race with Trump, wanted a few percentage points out of Carson.
No, that stunt was reprehensible.
Perhaps if Carson had campaigned with a little energy then the misinformation from the Cruz camp wouldn’t have been so believable.
It's time for Trump to dig in his heels and take down Cruz ( who can't win in N.H. nor S.C. ) and Marco too.
Wasn't breaking news. And in that story, Carson even tells reporters "not to look into it," IOW, not to take it as a sign of dropping out. It's dirty of Cruz to tell people who are voting that a candidate is dropping out.
That doesn’t justify unethical behavior.
Your projection complex is far worse than I thought. Pity that....
Looks like Cruz can’t be trusTED.
Exactly, nopardons. This is the same kind of dishonest, lowdown crap the democrats do.
I have NO respect for Cruz. None.
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