Vote for me, Ted Cruz, bye."
Posted on 02/04/2016 2:55:15 PM PST by Enlightened1
New audio obtained exclusively by Breitbart News indicates that as the Iowa caucuses began on Monday night, the Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) campaign called precinct captains informing them that Dr. Ben Carson was suspending campaigning, and instructing them to tell voters they should "not waste a vote on Ben Carson and vote for Ted Cruz."
The calls were placed after the Carson campaign had already clarified that Carson was not suspending his campaign.
Nancy Bliesman, a precinct captain for Cruz in Crawford County, Iowa, told Breitbart News that she received two voice mails-one at 7:07 p.m. Central Standard Time (CST), and one at 7:29 p.m.-on the night of the Iowa caucuses, which began at 7:00 p.m.
The first call came from a woman with a phone number out of Galveston, Texas at 7:07 p.m. (transcript follows audio): [inaudible]...from the Ted Cruz campaign, calling to get to a precinct captain, and it has just been announced that Ben Carson is taking a leave of absence from the campaign trail, so it is very important that you tell any Ben Carson voters that for tonight, uh, that they not waste a vote on Ben Carson, and vote for Ted Cruz. He is taking a leave of absence from his campaign. All right? Thank you. Bye.
The second voicemail was left at 7:29 p.m. from an Iowa phone number that Breitbart News traced back to a Cruz campaign volunteer hotline.
Hello, this is the Cruz campaign with breaking news: Dr. Ben Carson will be [garbled] suspending campaigning following tonight's caucuses. Please inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted instead. Thank you. Good night.
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What started it all: CNN report....
https://www.facebook.com/tiffany.house.96/videos/1085531334800368/
LOL!
Yes, where are the Carson voters who are angry that they were talked into changing their votes? I’d like to see them come forward .. all of them.
Rove managed to figure out that the number is 4 per precinct, just enough to change the numbers to Trump’s favor.
Imagine that.
Carson is dropping out. It may not be Monday, or this week, or next week, but he is dropping out. His supporters should be told that. It is happening and they are wasting their vote. Line up behind their second choice. Trump, Cruz or Rubio. All the rest are dropping out too!
Carson flying to Florida for clothes and dropping his staff is not someone in for the long haul. CNN had it right and so did the Cruz campaigners.
Clearly, Ted Cruz called every precinct himself with the news... right? No. The marching order was given through staff and you don’t turn it off in an instant. You have to get word to all of those calling on your behalf. At least, that’s how things work in the real world.
Can I ask another question? WHY IS FR SO INTENT ON TEARING DOWN TED CRUZ??!!
He is not the enemy. If the race comes down to him as our nominee, there is going to be an awful lot of bad blood from all of this nonsense.
I already demonstrated how you are wrong, and challenged you to respond, which you did not do, so here it is again-
There’s a difference?
Really?
If there is a difference, then why should Carson’s voters consider changing their vote?
Why would a person who is going to vote for Carson be potentially wasting their vote if there is a difference, as you say?
So explain the difference.
This one was posted at 3:48pm today.
You didn't even bother to look.
You know, we Trumpkins can point the finger all day long at the Cruzers, but we have to keep our side of the room clean, too.
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2016/02/04/explosive-audio-surfaces-cruz-campaign-telling-iowa-precinct-captains-carson-had-dropped-out-of-race/ Eat that Rush and while you’re at it explain how your boy Rubio is a conservative when he tells Univision he wants amnesty first THEN closed borders.
FR isnt, well exept that the founder is a trump guy but he has not done anything much to deter Cruz supporters from posting.\
I think djt has so much support due to the belief that he is really an outsider and that is the tonic D.C. needs I do not agree as he is a deal maker and a wheeler dealer and historically a liberal on far too many issues for me to support him in the primary.
BOR thinks this is so egregious that Cruz should be disqualified and stripped of the win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocgEmgXXwF8
BOR says that would mean each candidate would move up and get more delegates.
Its unclear but Cruz people knew better at the time and knowingly committed fraud to coerce or influence and election with false assertions
Can’t trust Tricky Ted “Millhouse” Cruz
Sure sounds like and actually said are two different things.
Look, here’s the scoop. If Cruz really thought Carson was suspending his campaign he could have confirmed with a phone call. But he was down in all polls including entrance polls so he didn’t want to pass up the chance to get these votes.
So he lied, went out to all 1,500 precincts and nullified another candidate’s campaign to save his own skin. That’s the truth.
I wondered last night how Limbaugh was going to spin this. He did not try — he ignored it. Kept on with his narrative as if it didn’t happen.
RE: Can I ask another question? WHY IS FR SO INTENT ON TEARING DOWN TED CRUZ??!!
The answer is so obvious -— IN ORDER TO MAKE WAY FOR DONALD TRUMP.
When Cruz, Rubio and yes trump people were saying Carson was dropping out, where were the Carson people? This isn’t done in secret.
You trump cultist need to understand you’re being trolled
I can’t believe we haven’t seen hundreds of duped Carson supporters...or as rove said thousands.
I fully expect a sob story or two but to date we haven’t seen one.
Indeed, is Carsons team so inept that they don’t monitor open forum communications?
Rubio isn’t my boy.
Marco Rubio is a lying whore.
How’s that?
It sounds like Carsons own team started this fiasco, by making statements to the media that were not clear
Vote for me, Ted Cruz, bye."
Thanks for posting this thread, as I don’t live on F.R., it’s the first time I’ve seen it.
Did you even read my post?
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