Ben Carson’s campaign manager, spokesman quit GOP campaign

With a month remaining before the Iowa caucuses, the big question will be how Carson reshapes his campaign and what effect those changes will have. Thats according to Carsons Iowa director, Ryan Rhodes.

Doug Watts, the communications director, said in a statement Thursday that he and campaign manager Barry Bennett have resigned “effective immediately”.

Armstrong Williams, Ben Carson’s business manager and advisor said the neurosurgeon “is the only true authentic Evangelical Christian in the race”. “He didn’t come back until November”, Robinson said. “And he hasn’t demonstrated that he can do that”.

Bennett told The Daily Beast that he resigned “after coming to the realization I was not going to be able to solve the Armstrong Williams issue”.

Williams replied Thursday: “Barry and I agree”. He was thought to give real oomph to a campaign badly in need of it-with a staff of inexperienced workers, and a candidate who had a compelling biography and an easy connection with many voters, but no experience in politics or policy to draw on.

“My senior team remains in place with my full confidence, ” Carson said in a statement to the New York Times just hours after initially mentioning the shakeup last Wednesday. Carson’s new campaign manager Ed Brookover confirmed Coen’s resignation to ABC News. Carly Fiorina, another Republican candidate who had never previously run for office, briefly surged in polls and then tumbled.

What do you think your and Doug’s departure means for the campaign moving forward?

In October, Carson led the polls in Iowa, bolstered by strong backing from evangelical Christians.

But as quickly as Carson rose to the top of the GOP field, he began to falter.

The straw that broke the campaign’s back was an interview that Armstrong set up for Carson with the Washington Post where he hinted a campaign shake-up might be in the offing – catching staffers flat-footed and unprepared for damage control over rumors the campaign was in a death spiral.

Watts added “He does present us with some problems being on the outside of the campaign”.

Things had “boiled over” with Williams, Bennett told Reuters. Once you have their names, addresses, and other data, you can use the info to target them later with more advertising (like, say, for a lucrative Super PAC) or sell the list to others for their own ad purposes.

All of this is part of a well-honed enterprise that promotes Ben Carson as presidential candidate, political commentator, paid speaker, author, neurosurgeon and champion of children, reading and God. And I’m like, we have 150 staff people who all went home for Christmas thinking that their jobs were on the line. I bet we’ll be hearing something about that from Bennett and Watts now that they’ve parted ways with Carson and Williams. Bennett, suspecting that Carson was once again following Williams’s advice instead of his, quit on the spot.

“This allows Dr. Carson a fresh start”, Williams said. Rob Portman, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. “My frustration level is boiling over so I told him I think it’s best that I leave”.

Personally, I’ve not found Dr. Carson’s positions to be overall consistent with a pro-life, pro-family, pro-religious freedom value system. Many have suggested the Carson campaign isn’t a serious attempted to win the W#hite House, but rather a money-making scheme.

In addition to direct mail, Carson seems to have undertaken a massive phone-spamming operation.

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