Still Standing By the McCain Campaign: Rudy Giuliani

Rudy Giuliani, for one, isn’t yet prepared to write off the presidential prospects of John McCain.

When just asked him just now at a press conference in Concord, NH for his reaction to the resignations this morning of McCain’s campaign manager and senior strategist, Giuliani played it off as a standard mid-campaign adjustment. Read More

The End of the McCain Campaign As We Knew It

Just days after dismissing dozens of staffers because of poor fund-raising and amid dismal poll ratings, John McCain’s presidential campaign is announcing the resignation of campaign manager Terry Nelson and senior strategist John Weaver.

Is this it?

Here, from a press release, are their statements:

ARLINGTON, VA – Terry Nelson, Campaign Manager Read More

Weaver Twists the Knife

John McCain’s chief strategist says he can’t get over the publication this morning of an incredible Giuliani campaign document that was apparently lost by one of Rudy’s operatives and obtained, inconveniently enough for the former mayor, by Ben Smith of the Daily News.

“There is nothing in there that is particularly surprising to me Read More

Kerry Brings McCain Aide To Campaign

A close adviser to Republican Senator John McCain is informally advising Senator John Kerry on his Presidential bid and may go to work for the Democrat’s campaign.

The aide is John Weaver, a rangy Texan who served as political director to Mr. McCain’s failed campaign against George W. Bush for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination in Read More