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8 year oldWhile introducing Ted Cruz at a rally in Indiana on Sunday night, Carly Fiorina appeared to slip off the stage — a spill that sparked a debate over whether the Texas senator ignored his would-be running mate in her time of need.
Calling him “the next president of the United States,” Fiorina turned as Cruz and his wife, Heidi, emerged f-rom behind a curtain at the event in Lafayette, Ind., then fell straight downward while the pair shook hands with supporters, disappearing f-rom view.
The video of Fiorina’s fall quickly went viral, with some even questioning Cruz’s values.
But a video taken f-rom a different angle by a supporter in the crowd showed that Heidi Cruz quickly came to Fiorina’s aid, and the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive quickly reappeared on stage, shaking hands with the pair she addressed as the “next first family.”
According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released this week, Cruz trails Republican frontrunner Donald Trump by 15 points among Indiana’s likely Republican primary voters.
Fiorina’s stage stumble aside, things haven’t exactly gone smoothly for Cruz during his swing through the Hoosier State.
Last week, Cruz was crucified by Twitter users after he referred to a basketball hoop as a “ring” during a rally in the gym whe-re the classic 1986 sports film “Hoosiers” was sho
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