[jpsb]

Got a link to the CNN report that Carson was dropping out? TIA

[Mrs. Don-o]

Here's your CNN LINK

This is what Chris Moody tweeted:

At 6:43 p.m. Central Time, Mr. Moody tweeted quote:

"Carson won't go to NH/SC, but instead will head home to Florida for some R&R. He'll be in DC Thursday for the National Prayer Breakfast."

It was an ambiguous tweet ("... won't go to NH/SC..."). A reasonable person could have understood it the way the Cruz staffers did, that Carson was folding before NH/SC.

This, it turns out, was a mistake. But not a "dirty trick."

You're welcome.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It looks like I was in error yesterday. I owe you an apology, or at least a clarificaiton.

I hadn't seen the actual timeline on the CNN tweets and the Carson and Cruz responses until today, on SteynOnLine (Link).

From the timeline, we can reasonably infer that the Cruz people pretty quickly realized that Carson wasn't folding, and that they exploited an ambiguous bit of rumor that they knew was false.

Bad on Cruz. Even if he "personally" didn't know about it until later, it's still bad on Cruz.

Sorry for jumping in yesterday without all the relevant facts.