hi, i m veronica de la cruz with breaking news to report. nbc news now reporting that mitt romney will announce his choice for a vice presidential running mate in norfolk, virginia, tomorrow. previously the campaign said it would use an app to announce his choice. speculation has swirled about his potential choices including rob portman, tim pawlenty and marco rubio. chris christie, paul ryan and others are general p rating vice presidential buzz. let s go to peter alexander who has been on the campaign trail with mitt romney. are you with us? reporter: i am. we re in norfolk, virginia, right now, staying with the romney campaign, traveling with them as part of the bus tour that kicks off officially tomorrow morning. it s at that first event that the campaign now advises us that they will announce their choice for vice president. and at this hour, fox news is reporting that that choice will be wisconsin congressman paul
america. something interesting to me is the campaign said they were going to make the announcement via app. is that something they re going to do? especially when you look at the president, trying to be the first internet president, is that an area where mitt romney feels he has to compete? all right, so we ve lost peter alexander, unfortunately, but we had him for a while. again, peter traveling with mitt romney in norfolk, virginia. again, breaking news out of the msnbc newsroom. wanted to go ahead and just recap one more time that mitt romney will be announcing his choice for a vice presidential running mate tomorrow in norfolk, virginia. previously, the campaign said that it would use this app to announce his choice. and speculation has been swirling about potential choices. they ve really run the gamut from rob portman to tim pawlenty, marco rubio, bobby jindal. but right now all eyes seem to be on paul ryan. all of these names really
spending a flood of money to try to define mitt romney particularly in the key battleground states like ohio and virginia, norfolk, virginia, where we are right now is one of the places where more money has been spent almost than anywhere else. the most money that s been spent is in cleveland, the home state, of course, of rob portman. so he s going to be making this bus tour. he s doing a four-day bus tour called the romney plan for a stronger middle class. what more can you tell us about at that? peter, are you with us? reporter: i am. sorry, i keep losing you, but i hear you now. i was asking you about this bus tour that the romney camp is going to start tomorrow. they re going to be making their announcement tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m., then go on the four-day tour called the romney plan for a stronger middle class. what more do you know about this? reporter: the effort of the bus tour is to play on barack
would have a bold vision for the future of this country. he tried to make the conversation in this campaign more specific about the issues and paul ryan, veronica, is viewed as someone who would very quickly do that. we have reached out to the campaign for confirmation, but, again, at this point, they have not responded to that. they are just acknowledging there will be an announcement made tomorrow morning at 9:00 here at the site of the uss wisconsin in norfolk, virginia. the state of virginia is significant, as this campaign goes. many people have said what happens in virginia will dictate what happens in the november 6th election. but the next several days will be spent in several key battlegrounds beginning in virginia before novemberi imovi carolina and then florida and ohio. there had been a lot of speculation that the decision wouldn t be made until the beginning of next week, after the olympics, when they would have the entire media spotlight to themselves, but it appears pr
who is hurt. so they have to press the alarm, make sure c.o.s know what s going on. most of the time we get a lot of false alarms, but we all know whether it s real or false. yard s clear. it s off now so everybody can get up. that s a precaution. nobody rise. nobody moves. business as usual. if we don t get down, then somebody might get shot. good throw! home boy. underneath the tower. i m veronica dela carouse in the msnbc newsroom with news to report. nbc news confirming that mitt romney will announce his choice for a vice presidential running mate tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern in norfolk,