Cruz said that he had no problem with his people passing on the initial TV bit that strongly implied Carson was dropping out, but that he regretted that his people didn’t follow up on it when Carson’s people protested and clarified that Carson was NOT dropping out.
Whether Cruz understood at the time that one was broadcast and the other tweeted I’m not sure. The fact that Carson’s own people, in their clarification, said it had been mis-reported that Carson had dropped out *before* knowing that Cruz’s people had done anything makes it pretty clear that Cruz’s people were not the only ones to see it that way.
Rubio’s people were spreading the same thing. Yet they get away with it.