Ben Carson appeared on CNN tonight to clear up the reports about a potential campaign shakeup and ended up blaming The Washington Post for having an agenda as they interviewed him.
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In a Wednesday morning interview with the Associated Press at his Maryland home – conducted without the knowledge of his own campaign manager – Carson said “personnel changes” could be coming, suggesting he would consider sidelining his top aides. Carson spokesman Doug Watts told WSJ the campaign’s spending total was somewhat inflated because the campaign pre-paid for November direct mail and other campaign activities.
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“I thought maybe he would be a little more chastened in the way that he reported this time”, Carson said, “but apparently not”.
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Disagreements within the campaign’s highest ranks have broken out into the open on numerous occasions, pointing to a persistent and sharp division between Armstrong Williams – Carson’s longtime business manager who is not formally part of the campaign – and Bennett, a Republican operative. As for Bennett’s role, Bass said of Carson: “This is his campaign and these are his decisions”.
The apparent rift between the candidate and his political team comes after his weeks-long slide in the polls.
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With the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, elevating national security concerns among voters, Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, has been criticized by rivals for his lack of foreign policy experience. Another challenge: He is soft-spoken in a race dominated by tough-talking figures including real estate mogul Donald Trump and Texas Sen. Nearly all of the money Carson raised, $7.4 million, was spent on simply trying to reach new donors who could give the campaign more money.
“We’ve had enormous fundraising, but that requires that you be efficient in the way you utilize the funds. Why don’t I have that conversation and call you back”.
This argument resonates with voters like Bill Molloy of Bedford. “He knows how to control his ego – he’s not going to make decisions about national security based on emotion, he’ll collect the facts, confer with the experts and make good, sound decisions that aren’t involved with ego”, Molloy said.
“I think I have to directly address the issue”, he said, sitting in his basement game room, where the walls around him are covered in decades’ worth of accolades.
“The Washington Post, quite frankly, had their story already written before they talked to me”, Carson claimed, later calling out one of the reporters by name.
Carson said he plans to announce a more specific strategy when he returns to the trail after Christmas, previewing his plan for Libya.
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Staff changes at the top of struggling campaigns are common, but the dysfunction of the Carson campaign has played out openly.
