Several senior aides have reisgned from the presidential campaign team of Republican former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, US media report.
The news will hit Mr Gingrich’s hopes of being the Republican nominee to challenge Barack Obama in 2012.
His campaign got off to a halting start when he criticised a plan popular among Republicans to slash and privatise a healthcare programme for the elderly.
Fox News reported staff were angry after he took a recent holiday cruise.
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