martes, 29 de noviembre de 2011

Herman Cain está reconsiderando su campaña



National Review:
In a conference call this morning, Herman Cain told his senior staff that he is “reassessing” whether to remain in the race. He will make his final decision “over the next several days.”

National Review was on the call. It lasted five minutes.

“Obviously, you’re all aware of this recent firestorm that hit the news yesterday,” Cain began, his voice somber. “First thing I want to do is say to you what I have said publicly: I deny those charges, unequivocally. Secondly, I have known this lady for a number of years. And thirdly, I have been attempting to help her financially because she was out of work and destitute, desperate. So, thinking that she was a friend — and I have helped many friends — I now know that she wasn’t the friend that I thought she was. But it was a just a friendship relationship.

“That being said, obviously, this is cause for reassessment,” he continued. “As you know, during the summer we had to make some reassessments based upon our financial situation. We were able to hang in there; we reassessed the situation and kept on going. We also did a reassessment after the Iowa straw poll and we made another reassessment after the Florida straw poll. When the previous two accusations, false accusations, came about, we made another assessment. The way we handled those was, we continued on with our schedule. We made an assessment about what was going to happen to our support. But our supporters, and even some folks that we didn’t have as supporters, they stood with us, and they showed it not only in terms of their verbal support, they showed it in terms of their dollars.”

“Now, with this latest one, we have to do an assessment as to whether or not this is going to create too much of a cloud, in some people’s minds, as to whether or not they would be able to support us going forth,” Cain said.

“Over the next several days, we are going to continue with the schedule as usual,” he said. “I’ve got a major speech tonight at Hillsdale College on national security and foreign policy, and I will deliver it with vim, vigor, and enthusiasm. And then tomorrow we’ve got some media appearances scheduled. So we’re going to continue until we complete our assessment over the next several days.”

“But if a decision is made, different than to plow ahead, you all will be the first to know,” he said. “So until that time, I want to continue to thank you all for your support, thank you for your prayers. It’s taken an emotional toll, but the people in the audience tonight will never know it.”

5 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

Esto complicaría a Romney de darse.
Sería comparable a lo que hubiera sidola salida de Edwards en 2008 antes de Iowa, la salida de Cain cambiaría todo faltando muy poco para el inicio de las primarias
Daniel Arg.

Antxon G. dijo...

En principio, sí. A Romney le conviene que Cain continúe para dividir el voto.

Juan dijo...

Yo lo pensé ayer, que seguro que lo deja. Es todo demasiado evidente, todo el mundo sabe que está mintiendo, y lo más importante, tiene que haber otras cuantas tias pensando si salir a contar más cosas o no.

Teniendo tanto que callar, es bastante increíble que el tio se haya lanzado a esto, pero bueno, hay gente arriesgada en este mundo :)

En unos días lo deja, seguro.

Antxon G. dijo...

Me da pena.

Por cierto, ¡su abogado es un hombre! Aunque se llame Lin xD

Anónimo dijo...

Habra que ver las consecuencias, y estar atentos a la recaudacion de Newt. Los votantes de Cain en principio se decantarian por él. Esto se transformará en como Next tolerará Diciembre.
Daniel Arg