It wasn’t repeating the story. It was changing the wording then blaming CNN...which seemed to have worked on you.
They simply reported the same thing CNN did - and hinted at the logical inference.
Be honest. When you hear a candidate is not going on to NH and SC and wants to go home to “rest,” it is not crazy or duplicitous to assume he is dropping out.
Carson’s own staffers took the same inference.
No. The CNN story was that Carson was not going to NH or SC. A story which matches the empty campaign event schedule on his official campaign website. That’s what Cruz’s campaign told their internal people.
CNN tried to claim that they said he was taking a break to FL instead of going DIRECTLY to NH or SC - implying that he was intending to go to NH or SC after stopping home in FL. But that is NOT what they reported, and that does NOT fit what is on Carson’s campaign website.
So CNN is lying to try to feed the “Cruz lied” meme. Exactly what I would expect by a news company that provides manpower for the GOPe’s plan of a brokered convention by raising up Rubio and bringing down Trump and Cruz.