Posted on 02/20/2016 11:24:11 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Sen. Ted Cruz and Ben Carson reportedly met privately in a storage closet Thursday night in Greenville to try and cool relations between the two campaigns ahead of the primary here. But the clandestine meeting allegedly did not go well.
Cruz called the meeting, The Daily Beast reports, to smooth over what has been a contentious public spat with the Carson campaign ever since the Iowa caucus. Carson accused Cruz of using dirty campaign tactics after one of Cruz's staffers saw a CNN report and told voters Carson was dropping out of the race right before voting started in Iowa.
The meeting, which the Carson campaign confirmed to The Beast, took place prior to the Conservative Review convention and lasted nearly 25 minutes despite Carson only agreeing to five minutes, a source said. It took so long Carson was late to his speaking arrangement during the convention.
"We weren't going to comment to the press on it, but it seems pretty clear that the other party involved had a different agenda," Jason Osborne, a spokesperson for Carson's campaign told The Beast. "How else could we perceive that to be?"
Osborne said that "the meeting did not go well" and was on short notice, so he didn't have time to prepare Carson.
The former neurosurgeon reportedly told Cruz "we agree to disagree." As Carson put it, "we disagree on accountability and culpability," according to Osborne.
The meeting apparently had no chairs and it's even unclear if the lights were on in the closet as Secret Service waited outside.
After speaking to the convention, Carson crossed paths with Cruz in a hallway, and the Texas senator reportedly didn't even look at Carson, his campaign said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
At least they’re both out of the closet now.
I thought Rubio was the one in the closet ?
Sounds like a game of Clue: It was Carson, in the closet, with a hammer.
That’s just funny right there
All else is speculation...allegedly....Typical Crap. Throw stuff and see if anything sticks.
In legislatures, it is not uncommon for meetings in the cloakroom to discuss policy or strategy in impromptu meetings. They found a spot where they could close the door and talk. Apparently they did that.
All else is speculation.
I’m so sorry. It’s Sunday and I usually turn into a Cruzbot, but I just can’t with this one. Obviously Ted Cruz wasn’t ready to take full responsibility for his actions and the actions of his campaign. Remember, Candy Carson was at a caucus where Ted Cruz himself said Ben Carson had dropped out. She had not planned to speak, but did to counter the lie that Ted Cruz had just said.
This shows us that Ted Cruz handles getting caught doing something wrong about as well as Hillary or Bill Clinton.
The butler did it.
“I’d give you a punchline, but I might get banned for it. XD”
Hold your tongue.
Why didn’t Carson make a big deal out of this:
“..Oct 2015
Donald Trump on Saturday raised questions about Republican presidential challenger Ben Carson’s faith with recent surveys showing the retired pediatric neurosurgeon leading among voters in Iowa and Wisconsin. (snip)
“I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.”
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/trump-questions-ben-carson/2015/10/24/id/698880/#ixzz40ZajdiBN
Does Dr. Carson think that Trump will be the nominee, and Carson wants to be VP running mate?
Carson was interviewed on this and he did say they agreed to meet there and that it wasn’t a “closet”, that it had tables and chairs. He also said if it was a closet it was awfully big.
So whatever floats your boat... Keep spewing...
the story does not read ‘they’ found. any thing... It reads like Cruz laid in wait and demanded a meeting in front of this closet.. The story says Carson agreed to 5 minutes. And the story says that Carson was made late for his speech...
Two Corinthians met in a storage closet. ...
Sorry, it loses something in the telling
Someone is losing their mind. Is it more likely to be the even tempered neurosurgeon, or the Harvard lawyer? Occam’s razor.
Give it up. Cruz is toast.
Dons next target is ROBOT.
I do not know where you are getting your information. Carson is not to have said anything in this article about tables and chairs... Carson is said this meeting was NOT to be discussed publicly... But oh there went Cruz's campaign manager out manipulating the story.
And I am spewing????
"Drop out and endorse me." "Endorse you? After what your people did in Iowa?" "That wasn't my people did that, *I* did it! Drop out and endorse me, sucka!"
PAGING Rod Sterling and Alfred Hitchcock
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