While some published reports indicate that Herman Cain plans to
announce today that he will suspend his Republican presidential
campaign, even top staff on the campaign still have no idea
what Cain’s decision will be.
“I don’t know anything,” said one staffer who was working in a
key early state this morning. The campaign’s field director Jamie
Brazil “doesn’t know anything,” the staffer said in a brief
phone interview.
Politico
cited “multiple sources” for its report that the Atlanta
businessman was “leaning toward suspending the campaign,” a
report dismissed by the staffer.
“Nobody knows. The honest answer is, nobody f—king knows. I
don’t know. I don’t even know if Mark Block knows. My guess is that
he probably does not… . Everybody’s just waiting. I think the
honest truth is, whoever talked to Politico … is speculative. I
mean, everybody’s got their opinion of what he might say or do, but
nobody knows for sure.”
A press conference is scheduled today in Atlanta at 1 p.m. ET,
but another source close to the campaign said this
morning that in numerous communications with key campaign
staff, there have been no indications — “none whatsoever” —
what the candidate’s announcement will be. There are
apparently no plans to hold a conference call with staff prior to
this afternoon’s announcement. If the campaign does go forward,
sources say, contributors and fundraisers expect there will be
major changes to the staff.
