Here ya go ... I know Mr Carson does not sit well with all the ignorance displayed by the americans, so maybe trump should win. Then let the chips fall where they may.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427846/Carson-team-accuses-Cruz-campaign-dirty-tricks-claiming-told-supporters-dropping-out.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3427846/Carson-team-accuses-Cruz-campaign-dirty-tricks-claiming-told-supporters-dropping-out.html
Ted Cruz ADMITS his staff spread 'shameless' whisper campaign that Ben Carson was quitting presidential contest just before Iowa caucus voting began – but blames CNN for starting the rumor
- Dr. Carson finished in fourth place in the Iowa caucus well behind Ted Cruz
- But his team accused Ted Cruz's campaign of sabotaging his efforts with a whisper campaign saying he was dropping out of the race
- Cruz apologized but blamed CNN for starting the rumor; Carson accepted the apology
- If the ploy caused Cruz to gain just 4 votes in each Republican precinct, it was the margin of his victory over second-place Donald Trump
- See more news on US elections at www.dailymail.co.uk/USelection2016
Ted Cruz
admitted on Tuesday that his presidential campaign spread a false
rumor, just hours before Monday's Iowa caucuses began, that conservative
rival Ben Carson was dropping pout of the presidential race.
Carson
finished a distant fourth in the nation's first nominating contest, and
observers at two caucus precincts told DailyMail.com that he lost
supporters to the Cruz camp when Republicans speaking on behalf of Cruz
said Carson was suspending his campaign.
It
turned out not to be true, however, and Carson himself complained
Tuesday about 'shameless tactics and dirty political plays' that pushed
Cruz to victory on the strength of political sabotage.
Cruz won the caucuses by a total of 6,239 votes over Donald Trump,
less than four Republicans in each of the state's 1,681 precincts –
representing the number Cruz's forces would have had to 'flip' at each
caucus location in order to overcome what had been a strong Trump
polling lead going into Monday night.
Overall, Cruz captured 27.6 per cent of the Iowa GOP vote. Trump took 24.3 per cent.
Rubio was a surprisingly strong third, at 23.1 per cent. Carson took just 9.3 per cent.
CONTRITE: Sen. Ted Cruz apologized to
Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday for a whisper campaign which said falsely as
Iowans caucused Monday night that the retired surgeon was dropping out
of the presidential race
DIRTY TRICKS: Ben Carson's team has
accused Ted Cruz's campaign of dirty tricks during the Iowa caucuses
claiming they told supporters their opponent was dropping out of the
race
'SHAMELESS': Carson finished in fourth
place in the Iowa caucus, well behind the top three finishers of the
night – Ted Cruz (pictured), Marco Rubio and Donald Trump – but also
well ahead of the rest of the field
A Trump spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment about how the scheme affected Monday night's outcome.
Carson
had accused Cruz's workers in a statement of 'tweeting, texting and
telling precinct captains to announce that I had suspended my campaign –
in some cases asking caucus goers to change their votes.'
A
pair of emails sent to Iowa Cruz backers by the campaign's digital
marketing specialist Spence Rogers just before and after caucus time
were titled 'Carson Likely to Drop Out' and 'CNN Reporting Ben Carson
Will Stop Campaigning After Iowa.'
'Please inform any Carson caucus goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted Cruz,' the first message read.
'CNN is reporting that Ben Carson will stop campaigning after Iowa,' the second said.
'Make
sure to tell all of your peers at the caucus supporting Carson that
they should coalesce around the true conservative who will be in the
race for the long haul: TED CRUZ!'
Cruz himself told Boston radio host Jeff Kuhner Tuesday on WRKO AM-680 that
his political staff in fact reacted to a false report from a CNN
journalist and never bothered to correct the record once Carson quelled
the rumors personally.
'Yesterday
when CNN reported and put up a post that Carson was not continuing on
to New Hampshire, was not continuing on to South Carolina, but instead
was flying home to Florida, our political team forwarded that story to
our supporters,' Cruz said.
HATCHET MAN: Rep. Steve King of Iowa, a
major Cruz backer, tweeted before the caucuses were underway at 5:19
p.m. CST that 'Carson looks like he's out'
This tweet from a CNN reporter, sent
at 6:43 pm Iowa time, set off a frenzy in Republican circles and led
Cruz's staff to spread the (incorrect) word that Ben Carson was quitting
the White House race
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'What
the team didn't do is, subsequently the Carson campaign put out a
statement clarifying that he was not suspending his campaign. And the
team did not forward that statement to the supporters as well.'
'That
was a mistake,' he said. 'It was a mistake for us not to have forwarded
the second statement as well, and I apologize to Ben for our not
forwarding that second statement.'
Carson has accepted the apology, his spokeswoman Deana Bass told DailyMail.com.
He
told Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday that he 'talked to
Ted Cruz earlier today and he says that he didn’t know anything about
what the campaign did in terms of contacting precincts, telling people
that I was dropping out, that a vote for me was a wasted vote.'
'I
have to accept his word that he didn’t know,' Carson said, 'cause he
said if he had known he would have not agreed with such a thing.'
But the retired doctor insisted that Cruz needs to clean up his campaign, and compared it to the Obama White House.
'A
culture exists within the Cruz camp that would allow people to take
advantage of a situation like this in a very dishonest way,' he said.
'Isn’t
this the same thing we see with the Obama administration, the IRS
scandal – no responsibility. Let’s see what in fact the Cruz campaign
will do about those individuals who inappropriately disseminated this
information knowing that the caucuses were not over – they were awfully
anxious to get it out there weren’t they?'
This message from Cruz digital
marketing expert Spence Rogers to the senator's supporters in Iowa is
one way caucus-goers got the false information that Carson was about to
suspend his campaign
The
Cruz campaign's message that Carson supporters should jump aboard the
Ted express got significant oxygen from Iowa Rep. Steve King, a tea
party right-winger who endorsed the Texas senator last month.
'Skipping
NH & SC is the equivalent of suspending,' King tweeted more than
two hours before caucusing started. 'Too bad this information won't get
to all caucus goers.
'Carson
looks like he is out,' he wrote in a second tweet. 'Iowans need to know
before they vote. Most will go to Cruz, I hope.'
The
rumor appears to have started with a tweet from CNN reporter Chris
Moody, who wrote that 'Carson won't go to NH/SC, but instead will head
home to Florida for some R&R. He'll be in DC Thursday for the
National Prayer Breakfast.'
Moody
later clarified: 'Ben Carson's campaign tells me he plans to stay in
the race beyond Iowa no matter what the results are tonight.'
But the Cruz camp never called off the dogs.
'Last
night, shameless tactics and dirty political plays defined the Iowa
caucuses,' Carson said Tuesday afternoon in an email to supporters.
'There is no place for this kind of unethical behavior in our American
political culture, and it only intensifies my desire to work extremely
hard to break down the ugliness in this system.'
Carson
spokeswoman Deana Bass told DailyMail.com that 'the fact that the Cruz
campaign received Dr. Carson's statement and chose not correct their
false statements says it all.'
POLITICS AS USUAL: Carson claimed his
opponent's campaign sent emails and texts to their supporters urging
them to spread incorrect rumors he had dropped out of the race
CAUCUS NIGHT DENIALS: Rick Tyler, campaign spokesman for Ted Cruz (above) denied the claims made by Ben Carson's team
'Regardless
of what his opponents do, Dr. Carson will continue to run a campaign of
integrity. From day one he has behaved like a statesman, not a
politician. The American people deserve nothing less.'
He
claimed his opponent's campaign sent emails to their supporters urging
them to spread incorrect rumors he had dropped out of the race,
according to Time.
He
told reporters: 'That is really quite a dirty trick. That’s the very
kind of thing that irritated me enough to get into this quagmire.'
According
to Time, his campaign manager Ed Brookover added: 'To have campaigns
come out and send emails to their caucus speakers suggesting that Dr
Carson was doing anything but moving forward after tonight is the lowest
of low in American politics.'
MSNBC
reports Carson's Iowa State Director Ryan Rhodes as saying: 'It was
happening all over. One of the precincts Candy (Carson, the candidate’s
wife) walked into, she had to correct the record. She actually walked
in, in Ankeny, and gave a speech about no, he’s still in the race and
that’s a lie.'
Cruz
campaign spokesman Rick Tyler denied the claims, but told MSNBC some
supporters were alerted of Carson's plan to head to Florida after the
Iowa caucuses rather than for further campaigning elsewhere.
Carson told reporters on Monday that he would be leaving Iowa early so he could go to Florida and get some clean clothes.
His
communications director Larry Ross then confirmed this in a statement
released to the media, which read; 'After spending 18 consecutive days
on the campaign trail, Dr. Carson needs to go home and get a fresh set
of clothes.'
The statement also shot down rumors that Carson was suspending his campaign.
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