CNN was sending out false or at least misleading info.
Cruz COULD HAVE called Carson directly or his people. Instead, he ran with the lie because it was useful.
Carson’s own wife was at one caucus where it was announced Carson was dropping out. She corrected them.
It was a dirty trick but perhaps those on the ground didn’t know what the truth was.
Everyone wants to win and can justify doing anything to get there. Remember CREEP?
It’s only a lie and slimy if they knew it wasn’t true. True, they could have called Carson’s campaign and asked but I do imagine that things were very busy right then, getting set up for the caucus.
And it was probably confusing for Carson too, because he had the snowstorm he wanted to get ahead of. I think somebody had said that he had said he’s a pragmatist and if he didn’t win the first primaries he would drop out. As I understand it, even after all this he’s STILL not planning to campaign for the next primary which is strange if you’ve said you’ll drop out if you don’t win it.
I think the long and short of it is that Carson IS going to drop out, and his supporters will need to decide what to do. Maybe it seems vulturish for the Cruz campaign to bring it up before he officially drops out but I’m sure the Carson supporters have been asking themselves how long he’d stay in.
All in all, Cruz was right to apologize for not correcting as soon as Carson clarified, even though at that point it was probably too late to make any difference.
All in all, it was dead wrong for CNN to use this to try to frame Cruz as being a jerkwad and it is TOTALLY CLASSLESS for them to refuse to apologize to everybody for their false report.