challenger dan cox, president biden campaigning with moore the day before election day. if moore wins he d be the first african american governor of the state of maryland and a pickup for democrats because he would succeed the republican governor larry hogan a moderate republican who is term limited. wes moore is out front and i appreciate your time. we ve been talking about president biden and his approval ratings and a midterm election year not good for the incumbent president usually but you are appearing with president biden tomorrow night and a lot of your candidates in your party have been reluctant to do so. how come you see him as such an asset? i see the president and him coming to maryland as a very big deal for maryland for two reasons. the first is it is going to be really important that we have a really strong relationship with washington. we have a lot we have to get done as a state. we re going to move fast and we are excited to be in partnership with the white house a
he had said to a utah paper, don t call me pro-choice. he came back to massachusetts and said, now call he pro-choice, or said, i will now support the pro-choice laws. so he had to win over the benefit of the doubt from those swing voters in massachusetts. he was able to do that then, and it seems like the same decision he s making now. i want to give these voters reassurance so they can vote for me on another issue. what strikes me, though, we ve seen this pattern i get the romney campaign s motivation on this issue, for all those issues you just described. but what strikes me is they have tried to do this type of walkback on so many other issues they have succeeded at. the obama campaign seems determined to not them not walk back this one. is there anything you can see in terms of romney s past or other historical precedent on this in terms of whether or not the obama campaign might succeed in sort of holding him to this? not letting him etch a sketch on this? i really think it
the question, though, is how specific is the attack? when it s biden tomorrow night, when it s obama against romney. are they pointing out, okay, this is what you have said about a human life amendment, this is what you ve said about planned parenthood, this is the legislation that paul ryan has proposed. get as specific as you can and pin him down on those specific questions, as opposed to making a more general assertion about he would have an extreme view on abortion. because the one thing romney s really good at, saw this last week in the debate and saw this in massachusetts ten years ago, his platform might say, two plus two equals five, he might have said two plus two equals five to get the party s nomination, but in the general election debate, he s going to say, i don t what you re talking about, i ve always said two plus two equals four. and he can be compelling. steve kornacki, senior writer for salon, cohost of the cycle weekdays at 3:00 eastern here on msnbc, thank you f
bring it up in the next presidential debate. the question, though, is how specific is the attack? when it s biden tomorrow night, when it s obama against romney. are they pointing out, okay, this is what you have said about a human life amendment, this is what you ve said about planned parenthood, this is the legislation that paul ryan has proposed. get as specific as you can and pin him down on those specific questions, as opposed to making a more general assertion about he would have an extreme view on abortion. because the one thing romney s really good at, saw this last week in the debate and saw this in massachusetts ten years ago, his platform might say, two plus two equals five, he might have said two plus two equals five to get the party s nomination, but in the general election debate, he s going to say, i don t what you re talking about, i ve always said two plus two equals four. and he can be compelling. steve kornacki, senior writer for salon, cohost of the cycle weekda