Carson pushes back against reports of campaign shakeup

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson suggested Wednesday a staff shake-up within his campaign may be looming, the Associated Press reported.

Republican Ben Carson’s continual decline in the polls has led to a top-to-bottom review of his campaign.

Ben Carson pushed back Wednesday against reports that said he was considering a major shakeup to his campaign staff, though he did not dispute the possibility that changes to his operation could be coming soon. Carson was rather vague, and Lemon brought up the suggestion that he might not have the best people surrounding him now that the campaign is focused on national security and terrorism (not exactly Carson’s strengths).

Although Ben Carson surged in the polls just months ago, a number of controversies and gaffes appear to have gradually stripped away his appeal with a large portion of Republican voters. ‘And, yes, we’ve had enormous fundraising, but that requires that you be efficient in the way you utilize the funds.

Carson acknowledged that some of his difficulties were of his making.

(Carson) “They were convinced that I was going to fire everybody, and the were going to go in a completely different direction, and that’s absolutely not true”.

In recent weeks, Carson’s campaign has been hit with questions about his biography and his comments about Muslims and Syrian refugees.

Carson’s campaign manager was unaware of all this, and over the course of the day there was much discussion about internal chaos in the Carson camp.

“Polling is only done among likely voters”, Carson 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.

Giles said on Wednesday that he was not in any talks to return to Carson’s side. He maintains that too many USA leaders, including some of his GOP rivals, have zeroed in on the Islamic State group’s activities in Iraq and Syria, while failing to acknowledge that they pose a threat beyond those borders.

Carson said the rough-and-tumble nature of the 2016 race has not outweighed his favorite campaign moments.

He recalled meeting one patient to whom he’d given a hemispherectomy – removing half the brain – as an infant. “These are incredible stories”.

“We have come a long way and accomplished great things together, and together we look forward to winning in Iowa and beyond”, Carson noted in the above-noted article by the Washington Post. Openly mocked by Donald Trump over inconsistencies in his autobiography, Ben Carson struggled to avoid a direct confrontation with the blustery real estate mogul and reality star but still emerged from the flap with a diminished public image. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has moved to the top of the polls in the state by galvanizing the Evangelical support that was once in Carson’s corner.

“Then he came up to me during the break”, Carson recalled, “and said, ‘I really meant it'”.