See her drawing contrast with the other candidates and trying to find the middle ground for voters to look to. garrett, it will be different on this night of debates than it was the last set down in miami. joe biden and kamala harris will be on stage with cory booker. how will his presence change the game or change the evening. here s the conundrum, how do you run a campaign of love and go on stage and make contrast with other candidates. that s what he has been trying to do. he does not see eye to eye on criminal justice reform. booker was very critical on the campaign trail. he said that he would be continuing to be critical on the debate stage. and this is the challenge for cory booker. he doesn t want to come off as someone who is throwing punches. he is not an attack politician.
the republican candidates take the stage in this, their last face-off before the florida primarily. i ll moderate tonight s republican debate right here on cnn. everyone s talking about the tension on the tarmac. in your face airport encounter between arizona s republican governor. what was that all about? and newt gingrich vows to establish a permanent colony on the moon. will that idea take off with voters? i m wolf blitzer on the campus of the university of north florida in jacksonville. you re in the situation room. just four hours from now, the four remaining republican candidates will square off right here in jacksonville. it s the final debate before next tuesday s crucial florida primary. it s become a grudge match between the front-runners, mitt romney and newt gingrich. our chief analyst gloria borger is here and jim acosta has been covering this campaign. jim. let me start with you. it looks like romney may try to go to the jugular. somebody may go to t
cruise liner is suspended. rescue diver face new difficulties while the captain may face years of prison. i m wolf blitzern charleston, south carolina. you re in the situation room. just releasing right now, a latest poll showing a tightening race. newt gingrich is charging ahead, trying to keep the fight for the republican nomination going, and the new cnn/time/orc poll shows him closing the gap here in south carolina. mitt romney remains the front-runner with 33%. gingrich up now, though, to 23%. rick santorum third at, and rick perry 6%. joining us now our chief political analyst gloria borger and time columnist joe klein. gloria, let me say, the gap seems to be narrowing in these recent days. what evidence do we see? take a look at this, wolf. in the poll we did january 4th to 5th there was a 19-point difference. now, in our current poll there s a ten-point gap. i think we can explain that by the fact that quite honestly mitt romney hasn t had a good week. and the