sympathizers will be speaking at the republican national convention, including donald trump. here s the obama campaign s response today. to what was said in michigan by romney. throughout this campaign, governor romney has embraced the most strident voices in his party instead of standing up to them. it s one thing to give the stage in tampa to donald trump, sheriff arpaio, and chris kobach, but governor romney s decision to directly enlist himself in the birther movement should give pause to any rational voter across america. romney knew exactly what he was doing. how many times think about that, how many times has he appeared in his home state of michigan in this election cycle without raising this issue in front of a crowd? i say it was calculated. this is an issue that s been dead in the media for months now. and romney just kicked it up all over again, and a few days before his convention to let the crazies know that, hey, he
he s also not getting anywhere with latinos. his only hope is to win over white voters by a very large margin. today in his home state of michigan, in the city of commerce, michigan, on the eve of the republican convention, he said this. i love being home in this place where ann and i were raised. where both of us were born. ann was born at henry ford hospital. i was born at harper hospital. no one s ever asked to see by birth certificate. they know this was the place we were born and raised. nobody s ever asked to see my birth certificate. want to know why? nobody is suspicious over the next few days, you re going to hear and see and read those words a lot. almost as soon as he said them, mr. romney was asked to defend making these birther comments, this birther joke in michigan. he did say, hey, it was just a joke. under the hash tag future mitt jokes, the great oliver willis
50.1% of the vote. the new poll shows mitt romney with zero percent of the african-american electorate. the romney/ryan electorate trailed by not even sure what you can call a margin, 94% to 0%. he is losing badly among latino voters. by a 35-point margin which is almost exactly the margin that mccain and palin lost the latino vote when they lost to barack obama in part because of the low portion of latino vote. mitt romney is running out of ways to meet his own low mathematical expectations. i need to get 50.1% or more. he s right. from this distance he cannot get there by winning over african-american voters. he s also not getting anywhere with latinos. his only hope is to win over white voters by a very large margin. today in his home state of michigan, in the city of commerce, michigan, on the eve of the republican convention, he
11. a very high police presence. but also recently because of this spike in crime as i mentioned there s been an increase in thefts, things like ipods. there has been a heavier police presence on the streets of new york city the belief that if you have more officers on foot patrol it will help deter crime. so that i think is part of what led to the apprehension and killing of this gunman so quickly. police officers have a heavy presence here and were on the street and people were able to alert them to what had just happened. mara schiavocampo live for us right outside the empire state building, the site of the mass shooting. thank you. news nation is also following developing news now in politics, questionable comments from governor mitt romney just hours ago. now putting him in the middle of the birther controversy. listen to what the governor said, maybe a not so subtle swipe at the president during a campaign event in his home state of michigan. i love being home in this place w
first of all, i wanted to ask you about your response, the romney campaign says that governor romney was not saying anything, that he s always said that he knows that president obama was born in the united states and has always rejected the birther arguments but you saw the offhand remark that he seemed to be ad libbing today when he was at the rally in his home state of michigan. well, this is the kind of gutter ball politics that i think will and should turn the american people off. this is a pattern. mitt romney has questioned repeatedly over the last several months whether the president understands america, whether he understands freedom. he s wrapped his arms around donald trump, one of the original originators of the birther movement. we ve seen a pattern here and this is the same guy who said he wanted to raise the rhetoric of this campaign, wanted to have a debate about policy and we just haven t seen that at all from his team. what we also have seen from the other side