Ben Carson insisted Wednesday that his “senior team” is staying in place, after saying in an earlier interview that “personnel changes” may be coming.
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Carson, who has lost his foothold as one of the GOP field’s leaders, appeared to be leading a troubled campaign on Wednesday when The Washington Post and The Associated Press – both of which interviewed the candidate – reported that the retired neurosurgeon was considering changes to his presidential campaign, including senior staff assignments.
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“I certainly don’t expect to get through a campaign without some scratches and bruises”, Carson said.
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A graduation photograph of Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is one of many accolades which line the walls of his game room in his home in Upperco, Md., Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2015. “We have come a long way and accomplished great things together, and together we look forward to winning in Iowa and beyond”, Carson said.
Carson’s longtime business adviser Armstrong Williams put more bluntly: “Dr. Carson is back in charge, and I’m so happy to see that”, he said.
Carson’s campaign has been lagging for weeks, following a short-lived jump in polls in October. After briefly pulling ahead of Donald Trump in national polling averages, Carson has been on a downward slope ever since.
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Told of Carson’s remarks, Bennett declined to comment immediately. When national security and foreign policy issues rose to the forefront of the GOP race after terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, Carson, who had not emphasized such issues in his platform and has struggled while discussing the topics, dropped in the polls. Carson had raised $31 million by the end of September, more than any other Republican in the race, but he’s outpaced the competition on spending – mostly on fundraising costs rather than critical political infrastructure.
Doug Watts, a spokesman for Carson, told CNN the campaign does not “anticipate releasing anyone from the staff, but we may reprioritize their time and/or their assignments”.
Carson acknowledged those issues in the AP interview, saying “The issue that has been put out is that because you are soft-spoken and nice you can’t possibly be tough, you can’t have the strength to deal with the incredible security problems we now face”.
“They have a global strategy”, Carson said, arguing that the US must match it.
“We had our standard 3:30 p.m. call and I asked him about the story”.
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Carson also emphasized the need to counter the idea that he lacks command of foreign-policy – a perception that was reinforced when one of his own advisers publicly described him as hopelessly ignorant about the Middle East. “There are so many people I run into that say they’ve never voted before, or never registered to vote or participate in a primary, and that they’re doing all of those things now”. “And they were convinced that I was gonna fire everybody and we were going to just go in a completely different direction, and that’s absolutely not true”.
