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Title: Carson accuses opponents of 'lies and dirty tricks'
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Politico
URL Source: http://www.politico.com/blogs/iowa- ... -opponents-dirty-tricks-218603
Published: Feb 2, 2016
Author: Daniel Strauss
Post Date: 2016-02-02 04:57:52 by Willie Green
Keywords: None
Views: 2639
Comments: 31
Ben Carson on Monday night accused his opponents of conducting "dirty tricks" directed at his campaign and after the results from the Iowa caucus came in, spreading the false rumor that he had suspended his campaign. Carson made the claim in an email to supporters after Sen. Ted Cruz was declared the winner of the Iowa caucuses. Carson came in fourth with 9.3 percent of the vote, behind Cruz, Donald Trump, and Sen. Marco Rubio. "For months, my campaign has survived the lies and dirty tricks from opponents who profess to to detest the games of the political class, but in reality are masters at it," Carson said in the email. "Even tonight, my opponents resorted to political tricks by tweeting, texting and telling precinct captains to announce that I had suspended my campaign - in some cases asking caucus goers to change their votes." Carson went on to say he partially decided to run for president "to stop these deceptive and destructive practices, and these reports have only further steeled my resolve to continue and fight for 'We The People,' and return control of the government back to them." In a minor flap earlier in the evening, CNN briefly reported that Carson was not planning on heading to New Hampshire or South Carolina after Iowa, leading to speculation that he was planning to drop out of the race. Not so: ".@RealBenCarson will be going to Florida to get fresh clothes b4 heading back out on the campaign trail. Not standing down," tweeted Jason Osborne, the Carson campaign's senior communications strategist.
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
Cruz reminds me more and more of LBJ. That is a dirty campaign trick right out of LBJ's playbook.
I was thinking more Bob Mulholland or Dick Tuck.
Lee Atwater was capable of such tactics. Certainly, Trump's old buddy Roger Stone has pulled tons of dirty tricks exactly like this. Stone has specialized in dirty campaigning for decades. Karl Rove too. Back in 2000, McCain was campaigning in NH and SC with his adopted daughter, a dark-skinned girl from Malaysia that Cindy McCain brought home from her charity work there. Rove did push-polling in South Carolina telling the voters that she was actually his long-lost lovechild from his years in Vietnam. Pretty lurid. But that is what finished off the Stain in 2000, leaving the path clear for Bush. I know, I know, it's just so shocking that any pol would engage in dirty campaign tricks.
Not with Cruz. There will be more to come.
Cruz is Santorum, without the charm. He eked out a one-delegate lead in Iowa. He's going nowhere in New Hampshire, in Nevada and in South Carolina. Trump will win all three of those, and the party will coalesce around Trump and Rubio. Now that Cruz's people stole Carson's votes, you can bet that the other Carson people across the country will set their faces against Cruz, and Trump will be the beneficiary of that. Carson won three delegates. Those three are not going to Cruz.
I'll give NH . But Cruz has a good organization assembled in SC .
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#2. To: Roscoe (#1)
#11. To: TooConservative (#2)
Cruz reminds me more and more of LBJ. That is a dirty campaign trick right out of LBJ's playbook.
#14. To: Roscoe (#11)
I was thinking more Bob Mulholland or Dick Tuck.
#15. To: TooConservative (#14)
I know, I know, it's just so shocking that any pol would engage in dirty campaign tricks.
#24. To: Roscoe (#15)
Not with Cruz. There will be more to come.
#25. To: Vicomte13 (#24)
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