Welcome back to the weekend. Were just 51 days from Election Day. 51 days. And in person early voting officially kicks off tomorrow in pennsylvania. That states 19 electoral votes are seen as must win by both campaigns and thats why Vice President harris will be in pennsylvania on tuesday. Shell Visit Michigan on thursday and wisconsin on friday. Now part of Harris Focus reaching voters outside of the democratic base as politico puts it. Harris team sees room to grow many of the types of voters located in the smaller cities. Exurban locals and rural areas shes visiting. Older mostly noncollege educated white voters. Joining us now, former Homeland Security Advisor and former Counterterrorism Advisor to Vice President mike pence. Olivia troye. You were on stages and in rooms. If i told you ten years ago you were going to be in some of these places you never would have believed me. When you were out on the trail talking to some of these are the republican voters what are you hearing espe
in 2008 was fresh and young and exciting and possible tip. is he still that same candidate today? no, he just can t be after four years in office, he s had failures, he s had problems. the economy is still a major job. i think what michael barone was saying and i agree with it is that romney is actually doing better in some of the swing state areas than republicans have done in the last couple of years, and that could be good news for republicans. i should point out i just counted the polls that are included in the real clear politics average of polls, match ups between obama and romney, obama has led in 21 of the last 28. there have been two romney lead and two ties. a signature eupblg for obama at the moment. jon: it s party hard to overcome the power of the incumbency. as voters get to know little bit more about romney, as he
again, when he goes out of the deep south and talks to people in swing state areas, he s going to have to sing a radically different tune. brent, is this the candidate we re going to see throughout the primaries or is he going to have to adjust if he s going to have a chance to beat barack obama, let alone get the nomination? i have breaking news for you after that speech, i don t think there s any chance that rick perry is going after the vote of richard. i m confident to say that today here on your air. listen well, you know the problem for the republicans is this, that they have a very strong and active conservative base. the question is, will that fly with the people they need to win an election? chris,ky tell you i think the people in the detroit suburbs and the philadelphia suburbs would love to have that jobs record that governor perry just talked about and the number of jobs created in texas. detroit is hemorrhaging and has