Team Cruz should have contacted Team Carson before announcing that Carson was dropping out. All of the campaign watch CNN,FOX, MSNBS, etc. Yet only team Cruz told voters right before they voted that Carson was drooping out after Iowa and they should not waste their vote on a candidate that was dropping out.
Now the Cruz supporters are saying "brilliant move by Cruz" or "he was just saying what CNN said" of the two I have more respect for those that at least own up to the fact Cruz played dirty to win.
There was a long thread a few hrs ago about him. Looks like it got deleted. See post 97 for the link about the Twitter discussion from the Carson page.
Gabriel's Twit page.
I’m still waiting for you to quote Cruz’s lie to me.
What Team Cruz told their people was that Carson wasn’t going to be campaigning - which is what CNN had said and what the schedule on Carson’s official site shows as well. Carson’s superPac workers in NH had all just quit to join the Cruz campaign because they didn’t want to waste their time or efforts. They didn’t want to be held on a string waiting for Carson to come alive when they could be doing something constructive for the country. If Carson isn’t going to campaign, why is he holding his supporters on a string? Does he want them to waste his votes?
And why is he blaming Cruz instead of CNN - which has not only failed to apologize to EVERYONE who took their 11th-hour report at face value, but has buckled down and lied about what their report actually had said, as is easily documentable in the video footage of it?
I have not heard any Cruz supporters saying this was a brilliant move by Cruz, and I’ve been on these threads. Show me where this is being said. What I’ve heard them saying is that it was probably too late by the time Carson clarified (said his not campaigning doesn’t mean he’s quitting).
And it seems like the Carson voters went to Rubio instead of Cruz. Everybody was wondering how Rubio came out so strongly, and the breaking CNN news report that Carson was acting like he was dropping out - and Cruz speakers mentioning that - either angered CArson voters so they went to Rubio instead, or provided cover for Microsoft to manipulate the votes to Rubio under cover of the Carson fiasco. In any event, several of the places where the Cruz speaker brought up the CNN report were among the 5 counties that Rubio won.
Rubio started saying, in the hours before the caucus started, that he would do better than anybody expected. Why did he say that? I was mistaken on the time zones showing in the Twitter pages, so Rubio’s people were getting cocky BEFORE the CNN report came out. Now there are allegations that Microsoft manipulated the vote count.
So no, this was not a “brilliant move”. The comments I saw from Cruz supporters at the very first was skepticism that Cruz would have taken this risk after the “shaming mailer” had already angered so many people.