captions by vitac www.vitac.com major new backing and a brewing new controversy for the republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he s picked up one of the most sought-after endorsements of the campaign, but a remark by one of his top aides is now threatening to overshadow it. our national political correspondent jim acosta is with romney who is holding a town hall meeting outside baltimore. jim, what happened? reporter: wolf, as you just mentioned mitt romney is about to hold a town hall meeting just outside of baltimore. the maryland primary is coming up in about a week and a half, but mitt romney can take comfort in the fact that rick santorum s path to the nomination looks sketchy today, but as the romney campaign knows, this race for the gop nomination is not etched in stone. thank you. reporter: it was as if one of the biggest names in republican party politics was listening to mitt romney s call for unity after the illinois primary. join us. join us.
he will unveil his new budget proposal complete with this web video. this coming debt crisis is the most predictable crisis we ve ever had in this country. and look what s happened. and senator scott brown takes a funny line from conan o brien that he used back in february as he takes a shot at rick santorum. i see that both newt gingrich and rick santorum now have secret service with them on the campaign trail. and in santorum s case, i think it s the first time he s ever used protection, so yeah. yeah. [ applause ] just saying. okay 0. well, the president takes his energy message to strategic states but mitt romney continues to hit hard on high gas prices. by the way, how would you spend $98 billion?
he proven, he can win his home state and the in the south, the republican will win no matter the nominee, gingrich is in a tough position. paul: kim, you wrote about gingrich and you told he had a pretty good energy message. what is he doing? it wasn t what he tried to win. your strategy, you win georgia or do well in some of the nearby states, oklahoma, tennessee, get enough delegates to give you a justification for staying in and he is assuming it s going to give him another turn in the limelight and when he gets there he wants to be talking about his energy plan, which is some arguing he can bring gas prices down to $2.50 not necessarily anything a candidate can do, but, his bigger point is that this is a big contract with obama in the fall. and there is an energy shift in this country that we could be creating millions of jobs, and that this is something obama s not there and it s a strong message he s making. yeah, dan? i think romney s economic message performs very well
he proven, he can win his home state and the in the south, the republican will win no matter the nominee, gingrich is in a tough position. paul: kim, you wrote about gingrich and you told he had a pretty good energy message. what is he doing? it wasn t what he tried to win. your strategy, you win georgia or do well in some of the nearby states, oklahoma, tennessee, get enough delegates to give you a justification for staying in and he is assuming it s going to give him another turn in the limelight and when he gets there he wants to be talking about his energy plan, which is some arguing he can bring gas prices down to $2.50 not necessarily anything a candidate can do, but, his bigger point is that this is a big contract with obama in the fall. and there is an energy shift in this country that we could be creating millions of jobs, and that this is something obama s not there and it s a strong message he s making. yeah, dan? i think romney s economic message performs very well
food. they leverage the energy message. if you want to be a little more progressive and not target weight loss, which happens to be a $60 billion industry, which is not a bad thing, you can go for like energy if you want to talk about something that appeals to everyone. i just wonder why this company feels the need to go mass market. one of the things people forget is strategy is as much about what you re not going to do as to what you are going to do. it may be very tempting to get into the mass consumer market but they may be able to carve out this great niche of the third or whatever percentage of americans that are very health conscience and become very focused and very well known within the demographic why your trying to hit. and if the food is good, target that demographic but the word is going to get out, i think. that s right. thank you for those words of advice. very helpful. if you have a question for our experts, go to the website. the address is openfor