My favorite story from the South Carolina campaign got leaked today.  The Daily Beast broke the story of a secret meeting between Ted Cruz and Ben Carson that took place in a closet.

According to the story, Ted called the meeting in hopes that he could patch things up with Ben after totally screwing him in Iowa.

It’s a good thing that Ted called the meeting with Dr. Carson because face it, Ted needs to have his head examined.

The meeting, which took place in a storage closet across from a bathroom at the convention center on Thursday, ended with Carson saying “we agree to disagree.”

“We disagree on accountability and culpability,” is how Carson put it, according to Osborne.

Secret Service members were guarding the door and simply said to a Republican operative in the hallway: “Yeah, they’re in that closet.”

It is unclear if there were lights inside of it.

That right there is an image that shakes my aesthetic foundation.

The meeting was supposed to last 5 minutes.  It didn’t.  It went on for 20 – 25 minutes.  Of course that was partly due to Carson’s sloooooow speech and Cruz’s continually saying, “eh?”

By all reports, it did not go well for Cruz.

After Carson spoke at the convention, and saw Cruz in the hallway again, Cruz didn’t even look at Carson, according to the latter’s campaign.

“There was a political play there and it didn’t work for them,” a Republican operative close to the campaign told The Daily Beast. “The meeting didn’t go as well as Cruz wanted it to go. Carson had a smile on his face and was looking right at him.”

Yeah, if you can’t beat Ben Carson at a closet talking contest, you’re probably not going to do too well with Putin.