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"You know what they say."

"It’ll be he-said-she-said."

"Even Herman Cain’s accuser said her boyfriend said it."

"He said, it’s going to be one of those he-said-she-said things."

“The way the Daily Show put it.”

“The problem for Cain...”

“...Is he-said-she-said-she-said-she-said for the four accusers.”

Now that two women have publicly accused Herman Cain, his campaign is trying to discredit what they’re saying. In an email sent to supporters Tuesday, Cain attacked his first public accuser, Sharon Bialek, and spread the blame to the Democratic party as well. NBC’s Lisa Myers tells MSNBC...

“Cain’s campaign put out the case numbers for a half dozen lawsuits against Bialek, as well as two filings for personal bankruptcy. He called her a liar, and trouble.”

“And now the Democrat machine in America has brought forth a troubled woman to make false accusations.”

First, the Cain camp blamed an aide to fellow GOP presidential hopeful Rick Perry for starting rumors about sexual harassment that ended up in a Politico story. Then, Cain’s Chief of Staff Mark Block made some accusations against his boss’s second public accuser, Karen Kraushaar (craw-sour). Here he is with Fox News’s Sean Hannity.

“It was brought up that the, that Karen Kraushaar had come out as one of the women. And we’ve come to find out that her son works at Politico.”

“You’ve confirmed that now, right?”

“We’ve confirmed that he does indeed work at Politico, and that’s his mother, yes.”

Although Bialek does have financial troubles, as the Cain camp alleges, Block’s off the mark with his  accusations against Kraushaar. The supposed Politico reporter Block said was Kraushaar’s son, Josh Kraushaar, set the record straight in a statement to CNN.

"Mark Block doesn't have his facts straight," Josh Kraushaar said ... "I am not related in any way to Karen Kraushaar, and I haven't worked at Politico since June 2010."

But now the media is buzzing about another detail of Kraushaar’s past that might hurt her credibility. USA Today reports...

“Karen Kraushaar complained to the Immigration and Naturalization Service that she should be allowed to work from home after a car accident. A former supervisor, who was not named, told AP that Kraushaar accused a manager of circulating what the wire service described as a ‘sexually charged e-mail.’”

So what does this whole blame-game strategy mean for team Cain? The Washington Post’s Michael Gerson writes...

“The approach has often been effective. It can rally the suspicions and resentments of the faithful... but [Cain’s] campaign to discredit his accusers has been flailing. And it has the added drawback of undermining the main theory of [his] campaign — that he is a skilled executive who surrounds himself with effective people.”

Time Magazine reports, Bialek and Kraushaar will hold a joint press conference to discuss the details of their allegations against Cain.

Stick with Newsy for more coverage of the Cain harassment scandal.

Transcript by Newsy.