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You apparently have no response to my main point, that it was perfectly reasonable for Cruz's staff to interpret Chris Moody's tweet to mean that Carson was dropping out of the race. That's exactly the way I would have interpreted the tweet. If Carson did not plan to go to New Hampshire or South Carolina, why should anyone suppose that he planned to attend the other primaries?

It was appropriate for Cruz to apologize for his staff's unintentional mistake, but that's all this was -- not intentional campaign fraud.

I'm tired of reading accounts of this non-event that pretend that unethical Cruz cooked the whole thing up. Even if Cruz was unethical, which I don't believe, while such a stunt might have helped him slightly in Iowa, but it would definitely have hurt him in all subsequent primaries. That's blatantly obvious, and Cruz is not dumb. He would not have done it.