Campaign Staff

The Once and Future Front Runner: Why Romney Is Winning in Florida and What Comes Next

Charles Dharapak / AP

In a Republican-primary season marked by political chaos, here’s something that finally seems settled: Mitt Romney will win the Tuesday, Jan. 31, Florida primary. So say the latest public polls, several of which suggest Romney has a double-digit lead over Newt Gingrich. So say Romney supporters, who have delighted in discombobulating the former Speaker with [...]

Former South Carolina Governor Jim Edwards Dumps Romney

In 2008, former South Carolina governor Jim Edwards devoted four months of his life to be the de facto co-chair of Mitt Romney’s campaign in the state, raising money and organizing supporters statewide. This time around not only is he not helping the Romney campaign, he’s not even endorsing Romney. Instead, he tells TIME, he [...]

New Hampshire Creates Big Expectations, if Little Drama, as GOP Race Wears On

Christopher Morris / VII  for TIME

In a final, frantic day of campaigning before Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, the six Republican presidential hopefuls sought to calibrate expectations for a race from which Mitt Romney’s healthy lead has sapped much of the late drama.

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An Unlikely Campaign Manager: The Story of Herman Cain’s Cigarette-Puffing Political Guru

If you didn’t recognize Mark Block at the beginning of this week, chances are you do now. He is Herman Cain’s campaign manager, perhaps better known as the guy with the mustache in Cain’s viral campaign video who says, “Herman Cain will put United back in the United States of America,” before taking a drag [...]

Rick Perry Reshuffles Staff, but the Heart of His Campaign Remains the Same

Narayan Mahon / The New York Times / Redux

The Texas Governor’s campaign announced Monday that it is hiring veteran GOP strategists Nelson Warfield, Curt Anderson and Tony Fabrizio. But a spokesman was quick to swat down allegations of a shake up. “This is the natural expansion of a growing campaign,” said communications director Ray Sullivan, sitting in his spartan office in Austin. “No one is leaving, no one is being demoted or forced out.”

Romney’s Inner Circle Builds a Leaner, Meaner Campaign

John Gurzinski / AFP / Getty Images

When Mitt Romney jousted with Rick Perry at last week’s Republican debate, the skirmish was striking not just for its apparent acrimony, but because it was one of the few moments during his second campaign for President that Romney seemed frazzled. As his rivals’ fortunes rise and fall, the former Massachusetts governor has skated unscathed [...]

Staff Shakeup for Huntsman

Jon Huntsman’s presidential campaign manager resigned on Thursday, just a month after the former Utah governor kicked off his bid for the White House. The departure of Susie Wiles, a former campaign manager for Florida Governor Rick Scott who helped guide the decision to base the campaign in Orlando, comes as Huntsman has struggled to [...]