Ted Cruz watched Carly Fiorina fall off a stage and just kept shaking people's hands


Things were going fine for Carly Fiorina as she introduced Ted Cruz and his family to a crowd of supporters in La Porte, Indiana. That is, until she fell off the stage.
This is where it gets funny: Cruz definitely sees her go over, but unlike any sort of normal person he continues casually shaking supporters' hands while pretending like his vice presidential pick is not crumpled on some Indiana gym floor. Heidi Cruz at least appears to make some sort of attempt to help Fiorina back up:
Mediaite defends Cruz with footage showing a different angle of the fall, which reveals Fiorina did more of an awkward stumble off the stage than a full-on face plant. By Mediaite's estimate, the stumble-vs-face plant distinction voids Cruz's responsibility to abandon handshakes and check if Fiorina is okay, and thus the whole event does not, as some believe, qualify him for the running of history's greatest monster.
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