On the night of the Iowa Caucus, CNN reported: "“We should say that our Chris Moody is breaking this news that Ben Carson is going to go back to Florida to his home, regardless of how he does tonight here in Iowa. He's going to go there for several says, and then afterwards he's not going to go to South Carolina; he's not going to go to New Hampshire." Cruz's campaign tweeted out that Carson was dropping out. He wasn't and now there is brouhaha that Cruz stole the election.
Carson was polling at 7.7% before caucus according to the Real Clear Politics average. He finished with 9.3%. You really think a tweet by a campaign surrogate swung that many voters?.... and you would have to assume they all went to Cruz, not Rubio. Cruz beat Trump by 3.3%.
How many Carson supporters are even on Twitter, much less religiously follow the Cruz campaign Twitter accounts to catch a last minute tweet?
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