NewYorker: Ted Cruz and the art of the dirty trick - Amy Davidson
Ms. Davidson gives a good account of the time table and what happened in IOWA.
Ted Cruz used the dirty trick of actively convincing Iowans at the caucuses that Dr. Carson had withdrawn from the campaign. They should not waste their vote on him, but vote for Cruz who was closest to their religious and conservative ethos.
The New Yorker does not comment on the impact to Trump's campaign, but notes that in an age of cell communication, the tweets and messages around this subject "left behind a digital trail of tweets and e-mail alerts. One of the tweets, from Representative Steve King, the campaign’s national co-chair, said, “Carson looks like he is out. Iowans need to know before they vote. Most will go to Cruz, I hope”—and it was sent after the Carson campaign had issued clarifications."
Karl Rowe on O'reilly pointed out that if only 4 people per caucus were convinced by the Cruz captains who were contacted, that represented the difference between Trump wining or losing in Iowa. He also provides a minute by minute recount of what happened.
So CNN screws up, Cruz's team uses this to win IOWA, but where is the Republican Party? Where is Rince prevys? I wen't to GOP.com and there is nothing there I could find that was about the Republican Campaign and the IOWA results. Even their "find" didn't find anything. I looked at the Tweet Site @GOP, nothing for the entire last 24 hours. Only one Tweet on IOWA, at the time of the election with the results. O went to @Reince for information, nothing. Lots about Hilary, about technology in GOP usage, nothing on any Republican Candidates.
So: No interest in the GOP establishment for preventing fraud during voting in the primaries. An interesting bit of information for people who in 2000 bitterly denounced a premature announcement that Bush Lost Florida while voting was still continuing in the western part of Florida. I guess if it was Jeb that was robbed, they would have acted?
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