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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. 
   
   Video ||||| Anthony Weiner needs to "go away" and will not be the next mayor of New York City, Democratic strategist David Axelrod said Sunday. 
   
   Voters don't need to hear any more from Weiner over his explicit, online relationships with women, said President Barack Obama's longtime political counselor. 
   
   "At this point it's absurd. He is not going to be the next mayor of New York. He is wasting time and space," Axelrod said on NBC's "Meet the Press." 
   
   The former Democratic congressman from New York, now running for New York City mayor, was plunged back in scandal last week over revelations that he continued sending inappropriate messages online after leaving Congress. Axelrod said enough is enough. 
   
   "It's time for him to go away and let New York have its mayor's race," Axelrod said. 
   
   Read more about: David Axelrod, Anthony Weiner, Meet The Press, New York City ||||| Rep. Peter King said Sunday Anthony Weiner should step out of the New York City mayoral race, saying he has a “pathological problem.” 
   
   
   
   “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,” the Republican congressman from New York said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” 
   
   
   
   King said the fact Weiner is still pulling top poll numbers is a “terrible aberration” and that there was never a way Weiner could have won the race even before the recent revelations. 
   
   
   
   “I just think it was sort of a perverse celebrity factor for a while to have his numbers up there," King said. "I just can't see any way, even if this latest scandal would not have come out, that Anthony Weiner could have won." 
   
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target: – 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.”