Then the fault is Steve King’s and not Cruz’s.
Steve King is ON the Cruz campaign! Did Cruz do anything about it? No! For a time the campaigned tried to deflect the blame every which way, CNN, Rubio, Trump.
Ultimately, they quit trying that and no one has been fired.
St Cruz still has his halo and his Bible, praying in thanks his BS worked on some. Didn’t work on NH.
Again, mistakes were made, but the original source of this was still CNN.
Steve King’s mistake was to take the CNN story and take it as an indication that Carson was quitting.
Unless there is evidence to show intentional malice on Cruz’s part, I give him the benefit of the doubt. You are entitled of course not to.