Rick Davis

...confrontations with the candidate over the management of the campaign. McCain then installed Rick Davis as his new campaign manager, a role Davis played eight years ago. Once seen as the front-runner for the nomination, McCain now faces...

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...campaign imploded last summer. In July of 2007, McCain elevated Davis to manager after the departure of Terry Nelson, a former top strategist for President Bush, and John Weaver, one of the senator's closest advisers. Be the first to...

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...the previous campaign manager. He was previously the campaign's chief executive and changed position when John Weaver , McCain's chief aide, and Terry Nelson, his campaign manager, resigned on July 11, 2007. Davis was campaign manager during...

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...face of weaker-than-projected fundraising. McCain quickly installed Rick Davis, the campaign's chief executive, as the new manager and vowed to press forward despite months of disappointing news. Davis long had sparred with Nelson, Weaver...

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...many of whom had never before met McCain. For campaign boss, McCain shoved aside Rick Davis, his campaign manager from 2000, and appointed Terry Nelson, the political director for Bush-Cheney 2004. Boyish and soft-spoken, Nelson was an...

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...is not running smoothly." In response, McCain has now put Schmidt in charge of day-to-day operations--communications, scheduling and basic political strategy--and left Davis to do what he does best: manage the money. The shakeup comes a year...

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...aide and confidante, who both blamed Davis for the campaign's woes. When McCain made his choice, Weaver and Nelson left the campaign and Davis seemed to cement his control. Now the extent of Davis' authority and control is in question. It...

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At least three other senior aides followed the two out the door, and the campaign announced that Rick Davis, who managed McCain's 2000 bid and has served as the current campaign's chief executive officer, will take over. "I'm...

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...amounted to between $250,000 and $300,000 a month. Nelson loyalists, of whom by then there were many, blamed Davis and Eudy for devising a plan that was out of whack with reality. One campaign source said Nelson, who came aboard as...

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