Dean Denies Top Campaign Aides Dropping Out

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean (news - web sites), the one-time front-runner in the bid to take on President Bush (news - web sites), denied on Sunday that top aides were planning to leave his campaign after critical voting in Wisconsin on Tuesday.

"Nobody's told me that," Dean told "Fox News Sunday." "So you know news is entertainment these days, and you can believe some of it but not all of it. And I have no knowledge if that's true."


Fox reported that several unnamed top aides had informed the campaign they were going to leave Vermont after Tuesday, going home because "there's no point in continuing."


The former Vermont governor did acknowledge that his campaign did not have an airplane chartered for the day after the Wisconsin primary, which he has portrayed as a "make-or-break" state for him. A recent poll of Wisconsin Democratic voters showed Dean far behind Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) of Massachusetts.

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[funky_bug]

1. I want Dean to stay in, but...

only if he can do it without attacking the other candidates. I know it's a political game, and that's all part of the rules of campaigning, BUT...

We're running up on November now, and it would be nice to see the candidates preaching unity, not division.

I love Howard, and I want him to stay in, but ONLY if he can run his campaign like Kucinich... sticking to the issues that brought him to the forefront, and staying CLEAN.

[Adelante]

2. Thanks, mom

I thought I had heard something about this last night, but didn't quite catch it.

[janx]

3. Thanks for posting this. Sounds as if Faux is doing its job.

I wondered where that rumor came from, and I'm glad Dean commented.

Certainly for the immediate future, we're not going anywhere. We're staying in the race.