Is This Campaign Finished?

Last week, Ben Carson lost three key staffers, despite a quarter that saw the famed neurosurgeon raise 23 million in one quarter. Now, some are predicting his campaign could be falling apart. As Newsmax reports:

Ronald Reagan’s top political strategist has declared the presidential campaign of Ben Carson is essentially over.

“At this point, I think his candidacy is finished,” Ed Rollins, a top Republican strategist who managed President Reagan’s 1984 re-election, told The Washington Post late last week.
Rollins’ comments came on the heels of the announcement made just before the New Year that some 20 Carson staffers had quit the campaign, including its manager, Barry Bennett, and two senior aides.

“He has money but his staffers are gone and nothing really to keep him going. Iowa isn’t seriously in play, he has no strength in New Hampshire,” Rollins said.

Carson, who once led polls in Iowa, now places in third or fourth.

The Post reported that despite massive online fundraising success, Carson’s campaign never invested the money in a serious organization to get out the vote in states like Iowa and New Hampshire. Instead the campaign re-invested funds to continue building its direct marketing lists.
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The Post reported that “others accused the campaign of misusing its funds, reinvesting the bulk of its earnings into raising more money, chartered flights and into bloated campaign salaries instead of building the sort of robust infrastructure in early voting states that will be crucial for whomever locks down the nomination.”
 

At one point, Carson lead Trump in Iowa. Now, he sits at 9.2 percent in the polls, almost two points behind establishment favorite Marco Rubio.  His fall is a reminder of how quickly things can change in an election. 

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