Two of Ben Carson's Top Aides Quit Campaign

[Miles Archer]

Source: NBC News

Two top aides to Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson have quit the campaign, NBC News has confirmed.

In an another sign that Carson's campaign is struggling, Campaign Manager Barry Bennett and Communications Director Doug Watts have resigned amid the one-time top-tier candidate's dropping poll numbers.

"Barry Bennett and I have resigned from the Carson campaign effective immediately," Watts said in a statement. "We respect the candidate and we have enjoyed helping him go from far back in the field to top tier status. Having just announced raising $23m(illion) for the 4th Q(uarter), more than any other Republican candidate, and passing 1 million contributions and over 600 mm unique donors since March, we are proud of our efforts for Dr Carson and we wish him and his campaign the best of luck."

Carson has dropped from leading the Republican field with 29 percent support in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in late October to just 11 percent by the middle of this month.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/top-aides-ben-carson-quit-n488576?cid=sm_fb

[keithbvadu2]

1. Ben is outliving his usefulness as a stooge.

Ben is outliving his usefulness as a stooge.

Republicans/conservatives will not run a black man for Prez.

Keyes, Cain and West are living proof of that.

[former9thward]

10. Keyes, Cain and Carson were not politicians.

West never ran for President. Democrats have never ran a black man who was not a politician for president either. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton never got anywhere in their runs.

[reddread]

20. Jesse Jackson never got anywhere?

[former9thward]

23. Was he nominated?

[reddread]

25. did the nominee win?

[keithbvadu2]

22. And you consider Ben a politician?

[former9thward]

24. No.. re-read my post.

[keithbvadu2]

27. I did read it again.

You imply that Ben is a politician.

[former9thward]

35. Just the opposite.

But try again...

[keithbvadu2]

38. You made a good try to deny it

[trillion]

31. Neither are Trump or Fiorina

[former9thward]

36. The poster I replied to was specificallly talking about black people.

Trump and Fiorina are not black that I know of.

[question everything]

19. Not these blacks

I am sure there are qualified, intelligent, knowledgeable African Americans who believe in the conservatives values - whatever they are.

It is too bad that the only one we've seen are the ones you mentioned.

Former Senator Edward Brooke could not have been the only one. Of course, the Republican party of his days was not the dangerous one of today.

[trillion]

30. Especially when their message is racism.

George Zimmerman is only a hero to the right because he killed a black kid and is a gunnut. Otherwise they wouldn't stand him because he's Latino. Until Carson kills a Muslim while promoting gun rights, he isn't going to win over the hearts and minds of the republicans.

Maybe Carson's people gave up on teaching him foreign policy?

[vinny9698]

37. Ben won't quit, a grifter has to grift, too much money coming in.

He is making to much money to quit, he will milk this to the convention. We all know that his real intent all along was to make money for himself and his cronies, which he has hired as campaign workers at top salaries, plus the kickbacks they get by hiring their buddies to do their fundraising. All about the money, Gingrich showed them his business model, now Ben is using it.

[complain jane]

2. Sad trombone. n/t

[Major Hogwash]

3. Good news for Trump.

Bad news for Carson.

Seems planned.

[immoderate]

4. Ben Carson is a wacko!

--imm

[RKP5637]

6. You're too kind! He is really a strange person. n/t

[trillion]

32. In a line of wackos the right is running for president.

kind of weird that even their black brain surgeon is racist and comes off as a dunce and a loon. Guess he wasn't mean enough, hence Trump.

[RKP5637]

5. Good riddance to Carson. There is something really unstable and unsettling about him to say the

least.

[mountain grammy]

7. My guess is, with all that cash coming in..

the good doctor isn't sharing the love or the $$$$.

[former9thward]

11. The money does not belong to the candidate.

After a campaign is over there are very limited options to what becomes of it.

[mountain grammy]

12. The money is used for the campaign, is it not?

to pay salaries, etc. These two were paid staff. I could be wrong, and I probably am, but when he mentioned how proud they were of their work bringing in large campaign contributions, I think maybe they weren't rewarded properly for their efforts.

[former9thward]

16. You may be right.

Carson did say his campaign was paying salaries higher than other campaigns. After the primary season is over I suppose someone will write a tell all article or something.

[mountain grammy]

18. That'll be juicy.

[PSPS]

15. Except for super-pac money.

[malthaussen]

8. Consider the mind-set of one who would be an "aide" to Ben Carson.

There were no openings collecting garbage?

-- Mal

[jtuck004]

9. Sniff and Scurry.

When the cheese runs out, you gotta go find new cheese.

[NastyRiffraff]

13. Buh bye, Ben

It hasn't been very nice knowing you. Go to your book signings and leave the country alone.

[7962]

14. The herd is self-thinning..........

[Eugene]

17. Republican Ben Carson's campaign manager, 20 staff quit

Source: Reuters

Politics | Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:58pm EST

Republican Ben Carson's campaign manager, 20 staff quit

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON | BY EMILY FLITTER AND JAMES OLIPHANT

U.S. Republican Ben Carson's 2016 presidential bid was thrown into chaos on Thursday when his campaign manager and some 20 other staff members quit amid infighting, dropping poll numbers and negative media coverage.

Barry Bennett, who oversaw Carson's rapid rise to the top tier of Republican contenders and his later fall, said he quit over differences with another top adviser to Carson, Armstrong Williams.

Specifically, Bennett blamed Williams for an interview Carson gave last week to The Washington Post suggesting that the campaign was in disarray. "It's one of the stupidest things I've ever seen a candidate do," Bennett said.

Things had "boiled over" with Williams, Bennett told Reuters. "For the past seven weeks, I’ve been doing nothing but putting out Armstrong Williams-started fires," Bennett said.

He also charged Williams was behind a story in The New York Times that suggested Carson was out of his depth on foreign policy.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-carson-idUSKBN0UE17520151231

[mahina]

21. 600 million donors? Am I reading that wrong?

I am not familiar with that notation, mm. There is no way that man has almost twice the country's population as donors.

What does mm mean?

[Nyan]

26. Ben Carson needs to be examined.

There seem to be so many signs that he's a sociopath.

[Kennah]

28. Did he knife them? n/t

[trillion]

33. Sounds like they gave up.

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[saltpoint]

34. Note to Ben Carson:

Looks like a couple key positions have recently opened up in your campaign.

Why not bring in a take-no-guff operative to steer your presidential effort for 2016?

Give Carl Paladino a call.