DAYTON, Ohio — His campaign’s survival in question, Herman Cain plowed ahead Wednesday in a determined effort to move past a woman’s allegation that they had a longtime affair.
Publicly, there were no signs that the former pizza- company executive was calling it quits in his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Aides were moving ahead with plans for events in New Hampshire, Tennessee, South Carolina and Georgia and prepared to launch a fresh round of TV ads in Iowa.
And Cain himself, on a one- day bus tour of Ohio, insisted he was seeing “a groundswell of positive support” after the latest allegation threatening his campaign. Still, he acknowledged “we are re- assessing and we are re-evaluating” in light of the woman’s account, which followed accusations of sexual harassment by other women in recent weeks. He renewed what has become a familiar defense: that he is the victim of attacks by liberals and the establishment, who are threatened by his outsider appeal.
