Here’s the CNN transcript:
Jake Tapper: Dr. Ben Carson...what have we learned?
Dana Basch: We should say our Chris Moody is breaking this...that Ben Carson is going to go back to Florida to his home regardless of how he does tonight here in Iowa. He’s going to go there for several days and then afterwards he’s not going to go to So. Carolina, he’s not going to go to New Hampshire, he’s going to come to Wash. D.C. and he’s going to do that because the National Prayer Breakfast is on Thurs. If you have been following Ben Carson’s career you know that that’s where he got himself on the political map. Attending that prayer breakfast and really giving it to president obama at the time.....and he became kind of a hero among conservatives and evangelicals especially.
Dana: But it’s very unusual.
Tapper: Very unusual.
Dana: To be announcing that you’re going home to rest for a few days....not going on to the next site..plus he’s already announced that he’ll be coming out and speaking at 9:15 local and 10:15 eastern no matter whether or not we know the results ..uh....because he wants to get home and get ahead of the storm.
Dana: Look if you want to be president of the United States...you don’t go home to Florida. Why...I mean that’s just the bottom line, end of story. You want to signal to your supporters that you want it...that you’re hungry for it and that if you want them to get out and campaign...you’ve got to be out there doing it too. It’s very unusual.
Tapper: Very unusual news that CNN has just learned and Chris Moody is breaking this story...Wolf back to you in Wash.
Wolf: Very significant news indeed guys.
Do you see anything that says Carson is quitting, other than speculation on the part of Tapper and Basch? And where is the “big announcement” you referenced?
Again, most of the stuff you cited comes from the Cruz campaign.
I’m not going to beat a dead horse here. Carson might as well stay in Florida. But please be honest enough to recognize your guy isn’t the Washington outsider he claims to be. He is just as bad as the GOPe types without the pedigree.
His principles and policy positions are based on the constitution unlike the establishment or Trump (authoritarian).