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Deace is a Cruz precinct captain defending the clear cheating that went on. But the message back and forth is on record and he can’t get away from that. He can try to evade it, but he can’t make it go away.
The Cruz camp saw a golden opportunity to cheat in the confusion and revealed themselves to be scumbags. Now they are trying to BS their way out of it, and Deace as a politician is a BS artist. He knows how to lie and spin.
The result is that Ted can no longer hold up a squeaky clean image because he has scumbags working for him. He should have fired his Iowa campaign chief and told Deace and others to cease and desist.
No one can redo the caucuses, no one would be able to tabulate the precise damage done. Cruz walks away with a modest win in Iowa but a tarnished reputation, unless he was willing to set an example and discipline the cheaters. He would still be viewed the winner but also as a responsible candidate. Instead and unfortunately, He is attempting damage control by protecting the scumbags involved.
Ted’s position is not one that anyone would trade for. He’s damaged regardless. But the damage to his integrity could have been minimized if he had announced he was going to get to the bottom of it and discipline those responsible. But NH is less than a week away and he finds himself in a jam and seeks to have people like Deace go on the offense with a BS line.
In any event, this story will fade in a few days by news from NH, but Cruz admirers will be having a diminished view of the Cruz campaign.