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 In a new sign of tumult within Anthony D. Weiner’s embattled political operation, his campaign manager has quit, leaving his already skeletal team without a day-to-day leader. 
 
 According to two people told of the decision, the campaign manager, Danny Kedem, no longer wished to oversee Mr. Weiner’s bid for New York mayor after a week of bruising revelations about the candidate’s latest online conduct. The two people, who have close ties to the campaign, did not want to be identified because they were disclosing confidential conversations. 
 
 Mr. Kedem, 31, informed Mr. Weiner of his decision in the last 24 hours, the two people said. 
 
 Mr. Weiner confirmed the news on Sunday morning outside of a Brooklyn church where he was campaigning. “Danny has left the campaign. He did a remarkable job,” Mr. Weiner said. 
 
 The move suggests that even as Mr. Weiner vows to press ahead with his candidacy, there are mounting doubts about its political viability within his own campaign. 
 
 Mr. Weiner’s staff was jolted by his admission last week that his habit of sending raunchy online photographs and messages to women had persisted long after he resigned from Congress in 2011. The disclosures clashed with Mr. Weiner’s claims that he had been rehabilitated after undergoing therapy and his suggestion that such behavior had long ago stopped. 
 
 Mr. Kedem had helped guide Mr. Weiner’s candidacy, originally considered a long shot, to the top of the polls in the mayoral field before last week. 
 
 Not long ago, Mr. Kedem made clear he had no qualms about his new job. He sent an e-mail to dozens of his associates in late June seeking volunteers and financial contributions for Mr. Weiner’s mayoral bid. “I am really proud to work for Anthony,” he wrote. 
 
 His departure is a hit to a campaign that was short of experienced staff members, because of Mr. Weiner’s scandal and his reputation as a difficult boss. 
 
 On Sunday, Mr. Weiner insisted that “we have an excellent staff,” and that volunteers were still flocking to his campaign. 
 
 Before working for Mr. Weiner, Mr. Kedem had managed the re-election of John DeStefano Jr. to a 10th term as mayor of New Haven in 2011, according to his online profile, and worked on Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. 
 
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 Anthony Weiner's campaign manager, Danny Kedem, resigned because Weiner lied to him about the timing of his sexting scandal, a source familiar with Kedem's thinking tells me. 
 
 Although Weiner had warned that more lewd messages or photos might come out at some point during his mayoral campaign, the clear implication was that his reckless behavior had stopped with his resignation from Congress in 2011. The source suggested that Kedem would have stayed on if Weiner had been honest with him on the actual timeline of events. The source also inferred from developments that Weiner had lied to other key staffers. 
 
 The New York Times reported Kedem's departure Saturday evening (although my source confirms that the resignation happened on Saturday morning). What the Times didn't report is that Kedem is just the latest in a series of staffers who have fled the campaign. 
 
 One ex-staffer, who resigned last month and spoke on condition of anonymity, told me: "I was taken on as a junior staffer with Anthony's campaign after a haphazardly conducted interview in a broom closet." The ex-staffer also said he "wasn't compensated adequately," having been promised $1,000 a week, but only having received "$600 for two week's work." 
 
 "For someone with a multimillion dollar war chest and the weight of his mistakes on his shoulders, you'd think Anthony would be willing to dish out anything needed to attract proper talent... Aside from being incredibly careless with regard to his personal choices, I'd say being stingy with his staff is his biggest mistake. While bright, innovative, impassioned and incredibly in touch with the city in which he was raised, Mr. Weiner, who champions welfare distribution amongst the classes needs to learn how to properly compensate his staff if he thinks he has any chance, even now." 
 
 A third source formerly connected with the campaign said that the candidate had gone through three or four "body-men." 
 
 Workers have allegedly been brought on as interns with the promise of jobs within a few weeks time, but at least one has left when the promise went unfulfilled. It is understood within the campaign that all hiring decisions are ultimately made by Weiner. 
 
 The six departures constitute significant turnover at a campaign that has averaged about a dozen full time staffers at any point. 
 
 Disclosure: Olivia Nuzzi, was an intern for four weeks on Anthony Weiner's current mayoral campaign. 
 
 (Update: Anthony Weiner's communications director responds -- calls Olivia a "cunt". Really.) 
 
 New to NSFWCORP? Subscribe for just $3 a month ||||| Anthony Weiner’s circus of a mayoral campaign came to a thudding halt on Tuesday as Weiner offered his concession speech, dropping out of New York City’s Democratic primary. 
 
 With three-fifths of the vote counted, the disgraced ex-congressman had 5 percent and was in fifth place in the crowded race. 
 
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 “We had the best ideas,” Weiner, who at times seemed to be holding back his emotions, said. “Sadly, I was an imperfect messenger.” 
 
 On Tuesday Weiner voted with his young son in tow, and later held an Election Night party at an Irish pub in Manhattan. His wife, Huma Abedin, did not appear with him, and she and their son weren’t mentioned in his concession speech. 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: Sydney Leathers shows up at Anthony Weiner election party) 
 
 “There was never any quit in this campaign,” he said in his concession speech, as he outlined his policy positions and thanked volunteers, family and staff — especially the “wonder women in this campaign.” 
 
 Weiner, a former lawmaker who resigned from Congress in 2011 over a sexting scandal, initially looked like a plausible candidate. But it all ended with graphic new revelations that he continued to have illicit online relationships even after leaving Washington. 
 
 When Weiner entered the race in May, he painted himself as a reformed family man and a fighter for the middle class. In a campaign announcement video, he appeared with his wife and their child. 
 
 (Also on POLITICO: De Blasio leads in primary) 
 
 “Look, I’ve made some big mistakes and I know I’ve let a lot of people down,” he said in the clip. “But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I’m running for mayor because I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it for my entire life. And I hope I get a second chance to work for you.” 
 
 For a time, Weiner was competitive: a poll released right as this summer’s scandals broke put him in first place, with 26 percent, and he looked headed to a run-off. 
 
 Abedin appeared by his side again in July, under drastically different circumstances. A woman who would later be identified as Sydney Leathers came forward late that month with explicit evidence of her online relationship with Weiner. The couple held a dramatic press conference to address the charges, the first acknowledgment that Weiner’s extramarital sexting habits continued for some time after leaving Congress. 
 
 (WATCH: Anthony Weiner's 10 crazy campaign moments) 
 
 That admission was the beginning of the end for Weiner. Two days later, he said he had engaged in sexually charged online relationships with six to 10 women over time, with up to three of those dalliances occurring after he left Congress. For weeks he was the subject of salacious stories and tawdry headlines, and his poll numbers plummeted. After the initial press conference with Abedin, she disappeared from the campaign trail. 
 
 Questions have persisted about the state of their marriage. Abedin, a top Hillary Clinton aide who had taken a vacation during the primary, according to a Weiner campaign source, was already back with Clinton in D.C. on Monday at an event for the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. 
 
 Weiner still earned media coverage in the weeks leading up to the primary, but several times the subject matter concerned his various heated exchanges with reporters and voters. On Monday — the night before Election Day — he engaged in a fiery tussle on TV, complete with swear words, with MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell. Last week, he exploded at a voter in a face-off that went viral. Weiner later suggested the shouting match was triggered by an incendiary comment made about Abedin, but he was tearing into a voter, an Orthodox Jew, nonetheless. 
 
 Throughout, Weiner maintained that he still had a shot at winning, even as his poll numbers were in the single digits. 
 
 In the contentious interview with O’Donnell, Weiner was asked what he plans to do after he loses. 
 
 “I don’t plan on losing,” he said, adding, “Maybe I’ll come on this show and kick your ass every night, like I’m doing now.” 
 
 Moments after his concession speech, Weiner flipped his middle finger at a reporter as he left, according to journalists who tweeted about the interaction. 
 
 Maggie Haberman contributed to this report.
– Huma Abedin is thus far still standing behind her man, but the guy running Anthony Weiner's campaign for New York City mayor is not. Weiner's 31-year-old campaign manager, Danny Kedem, has quit, reports the New York Times, in the latest tire to blow out for an increasingly battered and bare-bones campaign. Weiner confirmed Kedem's departure this morning, noting, “Danny has left the campaign. He did a remarkable job." Kedem put his long-shot candidate atop the polls—before the latest round of sexting emerged. It's not the only blow for Weiner today, as top politicians raced to the Sunday shows to throw Weiner under the bus. A sampling: David Axelrod, as per Politico: "At this point it's absurd. He is not going to be the next mayor of New York. He is wasting time and space. It's time for him to go away and let New York have its mayor's race." Peter King: "He should do himself and everybody a favor and step to the sidelines. He is not psychologically qualified to be mayor of the city of New York. I just can't see any way, even if this latest scandal would not have come out, that Anthony Weiner could have won." Mayoral rival Christine Quinn: "When you see scandal after scandal about this, what it does is create even more distrust and maybe even disgust in government. We really need to move beyond that." And further: "Has he disqualified himself? Yes. He disqualified himself, but not just because of these scandals. He didn't have the qualifications when he was in Congress. He was in Congress for 12 years, he passed one bill." Former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers: The Clintons "would like to see this go away. It's very painful for the Clintons. They are genuinely very close to Huma." And it's all over but the singing anyway: “He may still be in the race, but his campaign is over. Voters are willing to forgive people as long as the person is genuinely sorry and tries to change. Anthony Weiner's played voters for fools.”