Cruz went heavy "evangelical" the weekend before the Iowa caucuses. Carson's base has been mostly evangelical Christians. Since the caucuses, Cruz has backed off the evangelical rhetoric.
Based on this, I have no doubt that it was an attempt by the Cruz camp to shave a couple of percentage points away from Carson to beat Trump. I do not hold Ted Cruz in high esteem for this.
That's my observation and my opinion.
Here’s what I see. The Carson campaign released the information to CNN that Carson was going home to Florida and was not going on to New Hampshire or South Carolina. Every political pundit that saw that information interpreted it that Carson was suspending his campaign.
That CNN report has proved to be true. As of right now, Carson has not held a single campaign event since he left Iowa Monday night.
JEFF ROE IS TED’S CAMPAIGN MGR, HAS DONE THIS BEFORE
Southwest Missouri Congressional candidate Scott Eckersley blames the campaign staff of his Republican opponent for issuing a hoax that he had suspended his campaign.
An e-mail sent to news media outlets and a ‘tweet’ issued by a fake Twitter account announced that Eckersley had suspended his campaign due to personal reasons.
Eckersley blames his opponent, Republican Billy Long, for sending out the hoax days before the election.
‘You know this is dirty politics. This is Jeff Roe-style management. That’S who Billy’s retained. That’s who he writes the big checks to,’ Eckersley tells Missourinet affiliate KTTS. ‘This is Kansas City management doing what they do best, which is playing dirty.’
Of course that is what he tried to do. What would you do if you are right in the middle of a caucus and you just got news that your your main competitor for a certain voting block is taking a break from the campaign/dropping out...you would instantly inform your people in the field. That’s exactly what happened.