Ben Carson: Would have taken ‘second

The bulk of the cuts will come from his field offices and headquarters in Virginia, the report said, citing an internal memo and campaign officials. “Our campaign shared an accurate report that Carson was suspending campaigning after the caucuses – he went home and he went to DC – and these voicemails do not suggest that he would completely drop out of the race”.

Carson, a neurosurgeon and Republican presidential candidate, and his campaign have cried foul on actions from the Cruz campaign on Monday night. Not only is she campaigning harder than Carson is, she’s actually ahead of him marginally in RCP’s average of New Hampshire polls.

Ben Carson isn’t pulling any punches when it comes to what he feels is Ted Cruz’s Benghazi moment on the ground in Iowa this week.

While most of Carson’s initial supporters did caucus on Monday, almost one-third of them changed their mind about who to support. Reporter Chris Moody received information from the Carson campaign that he would be taking a break from the campaign trail after Iowa.

One of the messages left for a Cruz precinct captain said, “Hello, this is the Cruz campaign with breaking news: Dr. Ben Carson will be (garbled) suspending campaigning following tonight’s caucuses”.

When Carson was asked whether he was satisfied with the apology he replied simply, “not the way that I would have handled it”. “They very quickly disseminated information to the different sites saying that I was dropping out and that you should vote for someone else”, said Mr. Carson, who finished in fourth place in the Iowa caucuses.

That has irked Carson and his team, who has said the decision by the Cruz team to share only part of the CNN report was a dirty political maneuver.

Mild-mannered Ben Carson doesn’t seem inclined to turn the other cheek to Ted Cruz, now that voicemail messages have been uncovered that appear to show Cruz campaign staff in Iowa falsely telling precinct captains that Carson was planning to suspend his presidential campaign. And it’s hardly surprising that Donald Trump and Iowa governor Terry Branstad have piled on; both of them lost face with Cruz’s victory and can be expected to question its legitimacy. “Please inform any Carson caucus-goers of this news and urge them to caucus for Ted instead”.

Bennett said funding began to erode in mid-November and that the campaign has been adjusting to a new reality. He was not continuing to SC. “But you know, they’ve got a big debate coming up and I expect Ben might be more forceful than normal, and I’m sure they think they can use it to raise some more money”. Carson continued. “I don’t think so, but I do think there comes a time when you do what’s right rather than what’s legal”.

“I’m going to call out B.S. if I hear B.S. And that was B.S.”, Baldwin said. “It’s probably not going to be inside the White House”.