success. he built it. if the last four years had been more successful, do we really think there would be this attack on mitt romney s success? reporter: delegates thought she hit the home run romney needs. everyone around us, male and female, were just looking at each other like oh, man, she just hit it out of the park. she was very natural, a good flowing speech. she s opened up a new side of the romneys that you don t see. reporter: new jersey governor chris christie focused on romney the tough guy. mitt romney will tell us the hard truths we need to hear to end the torrent of debt that is compromising our future and burying our economy. reporter: christie s speech put romney over the top nor the nomination. tonight we hear from running mate paul ryan. he s expected to talk about his small-town roots, less government and strong communities.
goes out and attack. people who don t like obama don t like obama. that is settled. but what romney needs is someone to soften up and say what he is about. ann romney can do that. if i were chris christie go against the grain and say something positive about romney and not attack obama. andrea: chris christie has an excellent case to make because he is a fixer. he went in and fixed a blue state. won a blue state. busted budget. took on the unions. isn t that a case he can make i m a fixer an romney is too? bob: who, chris christie? dana: he talks about effectivegoneing. you have to get the floor riled up. they re here and ready to rock and want to party. their party is against president obama. that s why they are there. you saw this a fast pitch in baseball. perfect venue for chris christie. everybody will be raucous and cheering for him. that propels him higher. it s great.
worried: in the industrial midwest. wisconsin. minnesota. michigan. the one state that romney needs is ohio. if that is the place, he could open up the election. any of those states switches, it is serious business. neil: to your health? no. we got it wrong. we got the health care law wrong. what if i told you it is really to your health care union workers they are feeling fine. how about you? with the fidelity stock screener, you can try strategies from independent experts and see wh criteria they use. such as a 5% yield on dividend-paying stocks. then you can customize the strategies and narrow down to exactly those stocks you want to follow. i m mark allen of fidelity investments. the expert strategies feature is one more innovative reason serious investors are choosing fidelity. now get 200 free trades when you open an account.
gloria borger is with us, cnn s chief political analyst. both john king and have i been talking to sources as well as peter hanby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of us are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact a few of them are. i think what this shows us, a paul ryan pick is a calculation that mitt romney is going to a different generation, and that he intends to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real centerpiece of the campaign. i think what is interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden and how joe biden would have a debate with paul ryan. it s interesting because both of these men, biden and ryan came to congress at very young ages. i mean ryan ran for congress first when he was the age of 27 in 1988. and he 1998, and he asked his mentors jack kemp and bill bennett whether it would pass the laugh test. and they said yeah, it kind of would. but he remained the kid from janesvil
glor ya, tell us what your sources are saying? both john king and i have been talking to sources as well as peter hamby. none of our sources are steering us away from paul ryan. some of them are steering us towards paul ryan. in fact, a few of them are. and i think this shows us a calculation that mitt romney is tending to make the fiscal future of the country and the budget issue a real center piece of the campaign. i think what s interesting to me, you were talking to john a few minutes ago about joe biden and how joe biden would have a debate with paul ryan. it s interesting because both of these men came to congress at very young ages. ryan ran for congress when he was the age of 27 in 1998. and he asked his hen tors whether it was pass a lab test. and they said yeah, it kind of would. but he remained a kid from jamesvillee who goes home every weekend. and then some of his family was killed in a tragic, tragic crash. but they were both the sort of stars of their parties