Ted lied.
Check out @CNNPolitics’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/696194244470509569?s=09
CNN factchecks CNN. What could go wrong?
The transcript of the CNN report is out there. They reported that “...He’s gonna go there (FL) for several days, and then afterwards he’s not gonna got to South Carolina, he’s not gonna go to New Hampshire... Look. If you want to be President of the United States, you don’t go to Florida. I mean, that’s just bottom line. That’s the end of the story...”
CNN later tried to claim that they said Carson was going to FL rather than going DIRECTLY to NH but as you can see they said he would not be going to NH after Florida. And he didn’t.
So what did Cruz’s people lie about? Quote the lie to me.
Actually, don’t. This is such a waste of time. We’ve got more important things to deal with; I’m not going to be sucked into this distraction all over again.
Carson’s people truthfully told CNN’s people he wasn’t going to campaign in NH. CNN reported it as being “very unusual”, and saying that a person who wants to be POTUS would not do what CArson was doing. Cruz’s people truthfully told their people that the media was reporting that Carson was taking a break from campaigning after the IA caucus. Look at Carson’s official web page at https://www.bencarson.com/events . There are STILL no campaign events listed for ANYWHERE!
If CRuz is such ‘good friends’ with Carson, why didn’t CRuz personally call Carson to confirm this ‘information’, about his ‘good’ friend? He could then put his own campaign on notice to NOT push this whopper.
Cruz didn’t base what happened on “tweets”. He and his campaign were repeating what CNN’s on air reports said.