Reports: Bachmann's entire New Hampshire staff quits

Updated at 5:40 p.m ET

Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann's campaign manager Keith Nahigian just released a statement, disputing reports that Bachmann's paid campaign team in New Hampshire has quit en masse.

In it, Nahigian said:

We have a great team in New Hampshire and we have not been notified that anyone is leaving the campaign. We look forward to spending more time in the Granite State between now and the primary, but our campaign has emphasized that our main focus is the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa and we are continuing to build efforts there. While she will campaign in other states, Michele will spend the majority of her time in Iowa, doing what she does better than all the other candidates - retail politics - leading up to the all important caucuses."

There have been multiple accounts through the day of staff departures in New Hampshire, spurred by a report from WMUR-TV's James Pindell.

Pindell writes that the staffers left "over deep frustration with the campaign's lack of commitment to New Hampshire," which hosts the first primary. About six people worked for the Bachmann's campaign in the Granite State, Politico reports.

This afternoon, The New York Times said Bachmann's New Hampshire campaign manager Jeff Chidester, confirmed he was leaving.

Bachmann, whose fundraising and poll numbers have lagged far behind several of her Republican rivals, has focused heavily on Iowa in recent weeks, where she won the Ames straw poll in August.