all it would have taken was one phone call to either Carson or his CM.. all of the candidates have pretty much instant access to each other.. but they weren’t going to do that because there was a good possibility it was a false story and they would lose their gift handed to them by a false media story.. hey they could always put out an apology afterwards if it wasn’t true so why not go for it.. it’s all about going for the win.. same attitude about sending out shame letters to frighten people.. hey it’s about the win and they’ll explain it away later
I think that the creepiness factor is going to be his biggest obstacle. What the other candidates are saying about him really is true. Like the Clintons; he is willing to do whatever it takes to win.
Did Carson make one call to the CNN people he had just talked to? If so, when did CNN issue an on-air retraction?
For that matter, was CNN’s report even wrong - that Carson was not going to campaign in NH and SC? When I look at https://www.bencarson.com/events it looks mighty empty...
The way Carson is going after Cruz instead of CNN makes me wonder if he’s being paid to try to undermine Cruz, maybe to lift up Rubio...Or maybe he just knows what he told CNN, and that CNN’s report wasn’t wrong. Or maybe a combination of the two.
I don’t know. But a lot of people are using the “sleaze” word when it really looks like Carson’s schedule contains no campaign events ANYWHERE. From Carson’s campaign schedule it seems to me pretty likely that Carson wasn’t necessarily clarifying as much as he was claiming that not campaigning in NH and SC doesn’t mean that he’s given up.
Cruz did apologize for the campaign not updating their people when Carson clarified that he was just going to FL for a change of clothes “later that night”, which was the right thing to do. In the middle of a caucus when it was too late to reach the people involved maybe it was understandable that they didn’t get that out. But it was right to apologize. Something CNN has never done, and Carson seems fine with that.
“hey they could always put out an apology afterwards if it wasn’t true so why not go for it.. “
Exactly how Ted handled the situation after his abysmal vote. He had the line stored away, “I believed Mitch McConnell”, in the event he needed to pull it out for rationalization purposes.