Apparently claiming a candidate has dropped out is a tactic Cruz’s mafia style campaign manager, Jeff Roe, has used before. Blaming CNN is ridiculous. So who is Cruz going to nuke based on comments from a couple of political pundits without verifying the facts first?
“Apparently claiming a candidate has dropped out is a tactic Cruz’s mafia style campaign manager, Jeff Roe, has used before. Blaming CNN is ridiculous”
He won’t be able to use that one again. So does that mean his campaign will get even more dirty?
Stupid to waste it on a small proportional state. He now wins by 1 whole delegate (until next Tuesday).
The first word you use is "apparently". Why, because everything written here is speculation. No proof was given that it was proven who made a fake twitter account to send out a fake tweets. Anonymous emails to news organization are something you could of done just as well as me. There is a reason the wiki page for Jeff Roe does not list these things as fact, it is all conjure. It makes the "talk" sections and no further. Even liberal wiki has some limits.
You say "Blaming CNN is ridiculous"... Yet somehow Jeff Roe planning to "reuse" a strategy with CNN's handy cooperation is NOT ridiculous. For weeks we at FR have been peering with great interest and speculating on Carson's next moves. When his campaign started shedding members I, as most everyone else, speculated it was the beginning to the end. When Carson was asked what he would do if he didn't fare well in Iowa, he said he would "reevaluate" his position (on continuing his campaign?). These jobs are high stress split second decision jobs and some people excel in doing them. Some people get paid to spin after the fact. Perhaps that is what you are doing? Who knows, this is politics and it is messy by design, it takes the place of open battle basically.
But to blow off a known fact that CNN posted this live (see link below for the CNN section I am sure you have see a dozen times already)... I assumed as many others that it was another signal of death of his campaign. (BTW... I am a Carson fan, he is my second distant choice though I don't like some gun issues with him). I took the news the same way I imagine Trump people did, it was already planted in my mind that it was coming soon anyway. Just as it was in Trump supporter too (though educated Trump fans did not look forward to him dropping out for obvious reasons). We all knew it was/is coming and still coming (Carson drops his private plane and fires more campaign workers).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCzksoprMP4
All I see is this issue is is a way to muddy water with very flimsy sticks that hold no weight. Why muddy the water? Well because if Carson does drop out, certain people want those fans to not drift as naturally to Cruz as expected. Thus the "fake" outrage and grasping at whatever mud they can find to sling.