so people would have a reason to search for her. she performed very very well. jeff does donald trump try to do anything different tonight? or stick with what has gotten him here? just be donald trump. first of all he can t do anything else. this is the real donald trump. he will continue to be the real donald trump. used to have a saying in the reagan white house, let reagan be reagan. let donald trump be donald trump. one of the other things i would say, anderson one of the problems jep sjeb bush may have and others, the reagan-bush divide between the reagan wing and moderate represented by the bushes. curious to see if that surfaces here tonight, by name here people identifying with ronald reagan or the bush wing. anderson don t forget tonight, the candidate with the most debate practice is mike huckabee. he did well in the republican debates. back in the bygone years. he is a bible-thumping
adjustments. i think it s to make the adjustments without overcorrecting in some way. i don t think the voters want him to come out completely swinging in some kind of way that would be unlike him in this debate. he s got to somehow figure out how to be himself. perhaps to talk about some of the specifics that doug mentioned. to step up his game a little bit and to do it which will be dichb than what we saw the first time around. he ll be talking to voters, reacting to regular people. and it may require a different style. not someone who studied debate practice for the last three or four days. ann, i want to get to our next topic, strategies. both campaigns say it s going to be close. how do you see the landscape right now? with some remarkable as it has been close for many months. the map that you just showed and the six to nine states i would say that we ve been talking about, since the outset have not changed that much. even when president obama was up, even when mitt romney h
reporter: stewart is that enough to say the president s policies have failed or does romney need to layout in terms that americans can understand what he would do to bring this debt and deficit down? i think you ve hit the nail on the head, he must spell out what he s going to do about this huge problem. in my opinion, what he must do is spell out how he will grow america s economy. we must grow at at least a 4% rate. if we can do that we raise the level of employment, we raise more money in taxes, we cut the deficit and if we have a long-term plan to deal with our spending, and i stress long term, that is an answer to our problems. essentially mr. romney has to tell the world how will he grow america s economy compared to the miserable rate of growth that we ve had for the last three and a half years. reporter: it s going to be an interesting debate tomorrow night. thank you so much. the president and governor romney may be taking time off the campaign trail today for debate pra
this morning on world news now getting ready for the duel in denver. we ll see how both candidates are preparing for the first presidential debate coming up tomorrow night. it is tuesday, october 2nd. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, everybody. i m rob nelson. good to have you back from new orleans. good to be back. you can tell me stories during commercial break. oh, yeah. i have some good ones. they always are. and i am paula faris on this tuesday. we ll get the latest from denver with debate practice in a moment. and then caught on tape, a police lieutenant punching a woman in the head. now, the veteran of a big city force is facing brutality charges. that s hard to watch. yes.
hollen is going to be the stand-in to play ryan in debate practice. let me play a clip. i m looking forward to the next debate between you and your republican counterpart, paul ryan. i would welcome that opportunity. he seemed to have all the medicare facts yesterday but paul ryan, you cover him, because you have been on the hill obviously with him as the budget chair, you have been tracking the budget. he is ready to go, primed to go. we watched him in virginia this morning. do you think they now embrace ryanism and make a virtue of it, that s why they chose him? it s interesting, usually we are asking the second person on the ticket where they differ from the nominee and somehow that s been flipped around this time. maybe in part because there was a degree of surprise even though there had been a lot of discussion that paul ryan is a bright face in the party would be considered, but there had been a sense this a safer choice