Herman Cain 'Reassessing' Campaign

The Herman Cain campaign says the presidential hopeful told his senior staff he is reassessing his future, and will soon decide whether he will stay in the race for the White House. Cain told staffers the reassessment comes in the wake of what he calls a "firestorm".

That firestorm began with the I-team exclusive sit-down interview with a Dunwoody, Georgia woman who said she had a 13-year long affair with Herman Cain.

That story went viral and was rebroadcast and reprinted by newspapers and political blogs across the country.

Herman Cain talked to his senior staff Tuesday morning on a conference call. A transcript of the call, published by National Review Online, quoted Cain as saying the campaign has to reassess whether the media firestorm has created too much of a cloud in people's minds for the campaign to continue.

On the stump, Herman Cain is charismatic, delivering campaign speeches with the fervor of southern preacher. But according to the National Review, Cain was somber as he told his staff it was time to reassess whether to stay in the race.

Cain's conference call followed the I-Team exclusive interview with Ginger White , who said she had a 13-year long, off and on affair with Herman Cain. She says that affair began in Palm Springs in the late 1990s.

White is divorced and raising two kids. The I-Team found she had a history of financial trouble and a libel judgment against her from a dispute with a business partner.  She says she has no reason to lie about the affair, and showed us cell phone records with dozens of calls and texts to and from Herman Cain's private cell phone.

Herman Cain's Iowa campaign director, Steve Grubbs, says on the morning conference call, Cain absolutely denied Ginger White's story and told his staff she is a friend, nothing more. He also told the staff what he told us on the phone the day before-- that he only tried to help her financially, just as he's tried to help other friends.  Grubbs said Cain did not go into detail about the relationship.

Grubbs says Cain told the staff he was concerned whether the recent firestorm, as Cain called it, would create too much of a cloud in people's minds. He was worried about financial support and said it was time to reassess whether to stay in the race.

While Herman Cain says he will spend a few days deciding whether to continue his push for the White House, Ginger White says he is not the candidate for her. When asked if she thought Cain would make a good president, she told senior I-Team reporter Dale Russell, “For me?  Would he make a good president for me?  No, he would not.”

Character and different politics are why she says she can't support Herman Cain.

Cain told his staff the campaign will continue on for the next few days. According to the National Review Online transcript, Cain told his staff that's enough time to determine whether the public believes him or Ginger White . He did not address the current controversy in a speech Tuesday night.

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