to oust president obama and put a republican in the white house. >> trace: what are we hearing from the bachmann campaign, a day after major turnover in staff? >> reporter: ed rollins was the campaign manager. founder of the house tea party caucus, someone who was doing well in iowa and south carolina in the polls, until she won the iowa straw poll and rick perry joined the race. since then bachmann has been having something of a slip in the polls and struggling. ed rollins the now former campaign manager will stay as a senior adviser. the day that it was announced he bo be stepping back into a lesser -- he would be stepping back into a lesser role followed his statement to the res that it is now a two-person race between romney and perry and bachmann is in third that does not go over well with the candidate and the rest of the staff.,r?áfó