folks are asking me, i just got back from florida on the roaded and folks are asking me what would really happen? you look at the map, the new york times had a good story, 30 states in this country, women immediately b ll lly would not o get a legal abortion. there are some parts of the country this will not have an impact, women well to do, but millions of women here who don t have access and don t have access to safe legal care and access to birth control. this is what i don t understand. how can mitt romney say we re not going to make abortion illegal and make birth control almost impossible to get. it s a hypocritical and confusing position. i agree. i will refrain from judgment on this. thank you to planned parenthood and cecil richards as always. after the break while team romney touts small polling gains a great divide remains when it comes to the support of latinos. something to do with the governor s less than clear immigration position. remember this? if you don t
dealing with no food. we re live on the ground to find out what s being done. and a state lawmaker accidentally undermining her party and her principles with the press of a button. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first to a dramatic moment on the campaign trail. the presumptive republican presidential nominee, mitt romney, firmly stating his position on the u.s. supreme court s historic ruling up hodding obama care and directly contradicting what his top campaign advisor said earlier in the week. our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, is covering romney in new hampshire on this july 4th. she caught up with him earlier in the day. how did that go, dana? reporter: very interesting answer. remember, it was a revolt against taxes imposed by the king of england that spurred this day we re celebrating today, independence day. so perhaps it is fitting that whether or not the health care mandate is a tax was the question of the day here on the camp
talk about what it is exactly that we would do to help grow the economy and how folks that are looking to get in this country, aspirational americans, how we can help them and do it legally. quickly, we will move on to the bus tour, can the republican nominee of the party keep the immigration position, mitt romney espoused in the primary which was to the right of rick perry, to the right of newt gingrich? is that a sustainable model? you republican strategist looking at 2016 and 2020, given the growth in the hispanic community and their tendency to vote democrat? i think we make a mistake talking about this issue, who is get tting to the right of who. the criticism you will hear which i think is substantive is the president is making a political calculation versus a policy calculation. is this really modernizing our immigration system. that s something that will be up for debate. i think republicans, we have to again talk about how is it it s going to help build our economy, how is
welfare all throughout the 80s. so much so they just completely threw their hands up and basically gave up defending welfare. and so instead of that posture, you have obama defending same sex marriage. and you have him calling republicans basically bigots for their immigration position. trying to box them into a corner in a way that democrats really haven t tried to do as howard said, generations. also, howard points out, paint your foe as out of the main stream. and mitt romney being an elitist. we started the week talking about this two-minute bain ad and now the pro obama super pac. it is now going up in five different states. colorado, ohio, pennsylvania, and virginia. with its own so-called bain ad going after mitt romney and his business pass and not in the way he would like. sure. romney is simply unable to connect. say whatever you want about
advised meg whitman. up to that point, whitman in california when she was running for senate was leading among latinas. so when you start looking at how the republican party is actually in trouble, mitt romney specifically, not only is there a perceived war on latinos, but also on women. and then you have two groups. do your then diagram, and they happen to be latina women, and you re, like, oh, god, you re in trouble. steve schmidt, john mccain had a very strong immigration position that could have been very appealing to latino voters before his presidential campaign got under way. he kind of left that behind as the campaign progressed, as did president bush before him. but did you notice that latino voters track these issues carefully enough that they are noticing exactly what kind of moves the republican candidates make on these? yeah, no doubt. these issues are covered