Gerson: Ben Carson’s Campaign ‘Is Imploding’

‘He had broad resignations on people, because he had two power centers in the campaign that were obviously being played off against one another’

WOODRUFF: "I want to ask you both about somebody else on the Republican side who’s having — who has had an even more difficult time this week, Michael, and that’s Ben Carson. He’s now had five staffers, two very senior people leave the campaign. Where does he stand?"
GERSON: "Well, this is the problem of campaigning as a candidate with no experience. You have no experience. (Laughter) I mean, he has not run a good campaign. It’s imploding. He had broad resignations on people, because he had two power centers in the campaign that were obviously being played off against one another. And all this redounds to the benefit of Ted Cruz, particularly in Iowa, who is, I think, picking up a lot of that ground that Carson is conceding.”
WOODRUFF: “And it’s a reminder that money may not make the difference. As we just said, he raised $23 million in the last quarter.”
SHIELDS: “But they spent a lot of money to raise the money, Judy. The key number in all of those figures is cash on hand, how much they have — how much they have spent to raise it. And Ben Carson, it comes back, that campaign has become a civil war in a leper colony. (Laughter)He has basically acknowledged all of it.”
WOODRUFF: “Oops.”
SHIELDS: “And the recriminations back and forth. And the old saw, bromide, whether it’s or not, if you can’t run a campaign, how can you run the country? And I think that is coming to…”
GERSON: “Some truth to it, yes.”

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