Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told CNN on Wednesday that Cruz apologized personally to Carson for the mistake. He said the Cruz team “as a campaign” never alleged Carson was dropping out. “It may be that some of the surrogates or some of our caucus precinct captains ... went too far,” Tyler told CNN. If so, he added, “that was in error, that was wrong.”
Trump was ahead in basically all of the polls ahead of the caucus, but was surpassed by Cruz, the Texas senator. Marco Rubio, the Florida senator, also surged to third place just behind Trump.
