hi, i m veronica de la cruz with breaking news to report. nbc news now reporting that mitt romney will announce his choice for a vice presidential running mate in norfolk, virginia, tomorrow. previously the campaign said it would use an app to announce his choice. speculation has swirled about his potential choices including rob portman, tim pawlenty and marco rubio. chris christie, paul ryan and others are general p rating vice presidential buzz. let s go to peter alexander who has been on the campaign trail with mitt romney. are you with us? reporter: i am. we re in norfolk, virginia, right now, staying with the romney campaign, traveling with them as part of the bus tour that kicks off officially tomorrow morning. it s at that first event that the campaign now advises us that they will announce their choice for vice president. and at this hour, fox news is reporting that that choice will be wisconsin congressman paul
conservative support, congressman 42 years old, a young man but he s been in congress for seven terms. he knows his way around washington. he s got a lovely family. that is always part of the picture of the campaign. he comes from an important state. wisconsin is critical. he s very popular there. he s been very popular among conservatives in part because he sort of took on all of the conventional wisdom and took on all of the p courageous thinking, his most ar dent supporters would say, in putting out a budget plan that takes on medicare. there are critics that would say it s so destructive to medicare that why would romney choose him and the budget plan for ryan which tries to deal with the deficit would change medicare over time. and that s a very controversial thing. some people think it s critical, and others think that is just too politically risky. they wouldn t touch it. if you look at someone like tim
america. something interesting to me is the campaign said they were going to make the announcement via app. is that something they re going to do? especially when you look at the president, trying to be the first internet president, is that an area where mitt romney feels he has to compete? all right, so we ve lost peter alexander, unfortunately, but we had him for a while. again, peter traveling with mitt romney in norfolk, virginia. again, breaking news out of the msnbc newsroom. wanted to go ahead and just recap one more time that mitt romney will be announcing his choice for a vice presidential running mate tomorrow in norfolk, virginia. previously, the campaign said that it would use this app to announce his choice. and speculation has been swirling about potential choices. they ve really run the gamut from rob portman to tim pawlenty, marco rubio, bobby jindal. but right now all eyes seem to be on paul ryan. all of these names really
perhaps different attributes and might fill in parts of mitt romney for voters. romney himself said he wanted someone who would have the ability should that become necessary. someone without vision for the country. and there may be clues as to who he has selected. we won t really know until the final confirmation but we ve been talking about pawlenty, a portman, and when you talk about the broader voices, some of the names that came about were jeb bush, condoleezza rice. marco rubio. absolutely. chris christie. so what happened to those names and why is the focus suddenly really on rob portman? really on paul ryan. well, as a candidate is
ryan, the 42-year-old congressman from wisconsin has been viewed by many within the conservative movement, for quite a while, as the long shot in this situation. he was viewed as what would be considered a bold choice for the governor. he was given a series of choices. we had heard throughout the course of this time, they would be safer picks, as it was viewed, tim pawlenty, former governor of minnesota, as well as the senator of ohio, rob portman, or this more bold choice some were urging governor romney, to go with a bolder choice in paul ryan. ryan is a 42-year-old viewed as a young rising star in the gop. he s become their chief spokesperson when it comes to reducing the deficit and debt. and in a conversation that romney had with nbc s chief white house correspondent chuck todd just within the last 24 to 48 hours, he made it clear that he was looking for smuchb womeo