Ben Carson in hot Water Over Presidential Campaign; Shake-up Expected
Once the leading GOP Presidential candidate, Ben Carson's campaign is now in hot water as his numbers in the race is going down.
According to Salon, during the last month and a half, his national poll numbers have dwindled from a tied-for-first 25 percent with Donald Trump, to fourth-place 10 percent.
Iowa, the place where he was positioned to dominate due to the number of the state's evangelical conservative voters, he crashed from a field-leading 30 percent to fourth place.
One of the main reason political analysts see why the Carson campaign collapsed is due to his unfamiliarity with the basics of national security and foreign policy, which affected him greatly in the aftermath of the Paris shooting attacks and the San Bernardino shootings.
Furthermore, his campaign blunders were also magnified by the fact that his campaign operation does nothing for him -- except raise money.
With that, many expected to him to announce that he will have a "shake-up" in his campaign or perform a major overhaul with their strategy.
However, Carson went to CNN and pushed back against reports that said he was considering a major shake-up to his campaign. However, he did not dispute the possibility that changes to his operation will be done soon.
There were reports coming from The Washington Post and even The Associated Press that say that the GOP candidate was considering changes to his campaign that include changing senior staff assignments.
He went on to deny these reports and said that the stories had been overhyped and even repeatedly called the Washington Post for its "sensationalism" while insisting that no changes had been finalized.
He said that, "The Washington Post, quite frankly, had their story already written before they talked to me," and also claimed that he called out one of the reporters by name.
Carson said that the Post were convinced that he was going to fire everybody and his campaign is going in a completely different direction, but again reiterated that those were not true.
However, he told in a statement in CNN that he was "refining some operational practices and streamlining some staff assignments to more aptly match the tasks ahead."
The retired neurosurgeon-turned-presidential candidate did not also deny that reassignments or at least pay cuts could come.
"The key word there is 'may.' We're always going to be looking at it. We're always going to be evaluating how people are performing," Carson said. He added, "No one is ever 100% guaranteed that they're always going to be there."
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