course had a speaking role here. but maybe he got rained out today. but apart from romney s motivation or how he might stumble into something, what he did stumble into is something that does echo because of donald trump spenlding over a year on others in republly can world talking about it for some period of time. that s one of the reasons people thought they were hearing something in the crowd. and then the crowd response that was conditioned by months of preconditioning in the republican world. i feel like romney is running a constant primary. so that pat buccanon that we remember from the 90s, they re now a majority of the base. they still feel like that he eve got to caterer to them. at some point, he s got to pivot. he hasn t found a comfortable
but mitt romney asked him to keep his speaking role. so what can we expect to hear from senator marco rubio s big speech? the florida senator joins us now live from miami. good morning to you, senator. good morning. gretchen: i know you were originally going to be here right now, but, of course, you have constituents and family down south in the state of florida. how are the conditions there and when will you be coming up here? they re getting better. we dodged a bullet big time. so we re hopefully going to be driving up today. the flights have been canceled. so we ll make the drive up four hours in the car with my kids. that should be a lot of fun. 4 1/2 hours. gretchen: been there, done that. good luck. steve: how is it look for your guy, mr. romney? there is a new washington post poll that came out this morning shows romney up by one over barak obama. how do you think things are going? i think they re going to get better. what s happening throughout the summer is peopl
a convention sendoff for paul ryan. time for the poly-sidebar. mitt romney s running mate is back home in wisconsin right now before heading on to tampa tomorrow. he s holding a campaign rally in his own town shortly and joining the hometown crowd, the secret service. congressman ryan is now under full protection. so is ann romney. she was assigned her own secret service detail on friday afternoon. no comment from the secret service but it is typical for the wife of a presidential candidate to receive their own details at the same time as the convention. congressman ron paul won t have a speaking role at the convention but he s still in town and his supporters are all there, too. paul held a six-hour rally yesterday including a 77-minute speech that celebrated his accomplishments, defended his libertarian philosophy and calling for his liberty movement to move forward. the only thing he didn t mention, mitt romney. there s a reason for that one. he told the new york times quote,
way. he ll have a speaking role at the convention. and today he s featured in a new add. this election to me is about which candidate is more likely to return us to full employment. this is a clear choice. the republican plan is to cut more taxes on upper income people and go back to deregulation. that s what got us in trouble in the first place. president obama has a plan to rebuild america from the ground up. it only works if there is a strong middle class. that s what happened when i was president. now, that ad will run in eight key states, including six that president clinton won overwhelmingly 16 years ago. here s reverend al s advice to the republicans. be careful what you wish for. joining me now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief of the huffington post. and alicia menendez, host and producer at huffpostlive.
with 7000. steve: mayor booker will not have a speaking role . regulated to an off camera for the president s reelection campaign. booker critized the tax on mitt romney s success on bain capital and called them nauseating and booker and obama claim that is a thing of the past. but he doesn t have surrogate work right now. cutting ties with a veteran s charity after it was accused of helping less than half with the veterans it is sued by the california attorney general who claimed they spent millions on golf club membership and she had no idea that the charity was being investigated and not used a video of her appealing