prospects in 2016. how could she best position herself now for a possible presidential bid then? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. s. a turning point in the race for the white house. the obama campaign is now going directly on the attack against the republican presidential candidates. they are naming names, and fighting back after months of largely turning the other cheek. but it s not the president taking on his gov challengers. that task is now falling to the vice president joe biden. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin is joining us now. jessica, this is clearly a new phase in the obama reelection campaign. it is, wolf. after months of saying they re just watching the republicans duke it out on the trail, now team obama is officially in campaign mode. remember president obama said this? all of them determine who their standard bearer is going to be. until the republicans have a nominee, we don t have a campaign. reporter: when he hits
possible spin on romney s failure to win in alabama or mississippi. our goal was to take out one third of the delegates and possibly do slightly better than that. i think we will exceed that goal. it s important to your goal wasn t to win one of the states? i don t think anybody expected mitt to win alabama or mississippi. as mitt said early on in the campaign, that this was an away game for him, and i think that s true. look, this is a delegate contest. and like i said, our goal was to come in, take a third of the delegates. keeping them honest on the claim that nobody expected him to win alabama or mississippi. in fact, one person did expect, mitt romney, in mobile, alabama. we re going to win tomorrow. we need your help. that was the night before the primaries. not to single out governor romney, of course, listen to newt gingrich spin the results. i want to tell you a second what will become a challenge is we ll have three or four days of news media and they