you re in the situation room. their voters no candidate can afford to ignore any longer. and both mitt romney and president obama are reaching out to latinos this week with speeches to a national conference being held near orlando. the president addresses the group tomorrow. mitt romney spoke today. but the presumptive republican nominee has the greater challenge. a gallop poll shows mr. obama with a strong lead among hispanic registered voters. 66% to romney s 24%. but the president s advantage all but disappears in the battleground state of florida where the conference is being held. romney s trailing there by only four points according to a university poll. cnn national political correspondent, jim acosta s on the scene for us right outside orr lan toe. jim, romney spoke about immigration today. how did it go? reporter: wolf, a senior romney advisor told me that today s speech was more about laying out broad principles than specific policy proposals. that left some i
dream act is stalled. romney bashed the president s end run around congress. even though he was asked repeatedly, he refused to say if he would repeal the order if he s elected in november. would you repeal this order if you became president? well, let s step back and look at the issue. what would you do about it? as you know, he was president for the last three and a half years, did nothing on immigration. but would you repeal this? well, it would be overtaken by events by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to individuals such as they know their setting is going to be. for the term of a president but on a permanent basis. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? we ll look at that setting as we reach that. but my anticipation is i d come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this kind of stop-gap measure.
dream act is stalled. romney bashed the president s end run around congress. even though he was asked repeatedly, he refused to say if he would repeal the order if he s elected in november. would you repeal this order if you became president? well, let s step back and look at the issue. what would you do about it? as you know, he was president for the last 3 1/2 years, did nothing on immigration. but would you repeal this? well, it would be overtaken by events by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to individuals such as they know their setting is going to be. for the term of a president but on a permanent basis. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? we ll look at that setting as we reach that. but my anticipation is i d come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this kind of stop-gap measure. romney d
end run around congress. even though he was asked repeatedly, he refused to say if he would repeal the order if he s elected in november. would you repeal this order if you became president? well, let s step back and look at the issue. what would you do about it? as you know, he was president for the last three and a half years, did nothing on immigration. but would you repeal this? well, it would be overtaken by events by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to individuals such as they know their setting is going to be. for the term of a president but on a permanent basis. would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? we ll look at that setting as we reach that. but my anticipation is i d come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this kind of stop-gap measure. during the rest of the interview, romney didn t r
that s manufacturing growth since 95. and then he went to the future and compared his plan to romney s. i think in the end that s what the american people are going to care about. they re going to hear all the charges of the past. romney wasn t a good governor and all that stuff. they re going to be interested in what are the plans of the candidates to get us out of this. i think the president has a more viable plan, a plan that can jump start the economy more quickly, and a plan that has a chance to work. the romney plan, bill clinton said it s the bush tax cuts on steroids. and i think that s a very good if he can make the election about the contrast for the future, i think he s got a good shot. i guess the question is, michael, whether he can work with the argument. i started in a mess i was given in 2008. this guy wants to rewrite the same policies of tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation of the financial sector, all that stuff. right. my question to you and it s a