CNN is up to their necks in this. Their tweet - around the same time as Marco Rubio’s people started talking about how they were going to do better than anybody expected - claimed not just that Carson was going back to FL but that he WOULD NOT BE CAMPAIGNING FOR THE NEXT PRIMARIES.
I would not put it past CNN to feed the Cruz campaign information saying that Carson was also going to make a big announcement this week. If they did, the Cruz campaign would probably not like to say that they believed disinformation put out by CNN.
It seems like shortly before 5pm a probable Rubio supporter (Jennings Brown) and CNN came up with reports that were likely intended to frame Cruz in such a way that would turn Carson supporters to Rubio.
See my posts at http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:butterdezillion/index?brevity=full;tab=comments for more information.
I wouldn’t put it past CNN, either. That DOES NOT, however, absolve Cruz and his campaign.
I’m in Mississippi. We just went through this crap with Barbour and Cochran and the GOP. Cruz is working straight out of their playbook.