Let s take a few minutes to discuss this debate and where things stand overall in the republicans battle for new hampshire. i want to start in manchester, of course, where senate political director mark preston is standing by with jim acosta. they have been on the ground tracking developments across that state. we also have two political strategists with us, michael denny is in manchester, he is a new hampshire-based republican strategist and robert zimmerman joins us from new york now. he is a democratic strategist and he has been watching the debates and following the race, as well. good to see all of you. thanks for joining us. appreciate you all participating. mark preston, let s start with you. the nation s first presidential primary already here. any reason to suspect mitt romney won t be the winner? no. i mean, look. bottom line is we know that mitt romney will win on tuesday night. it s a foregone conclusion. he s been working the state ever since he lost his bid for the rep
That terrible day. and then 13 people lighting candles to represent each of the 13 people who were injured in that terrible shooting. thelma guttierez in tucson, arizona. appreciate your reporting tonight. now this. after all the debates, all the rallies and all the stops in small town diners, mitt romney looks like the man to beat in tuesday s new hampshire primary. let s go to manchester where cnn political director mr. mark preston is standing by along with cnn s political correspondent jim acosta. guys, good to see you again. saw you a couple minutes ago. jim, i m going to start with you. you ve been on the road today tracking the romney campaign. tell us what s going on with a little more than one day left to go. that s right, don. as you know, we ve been talking about this. it s going to take a tim tebow-style comeback for one of these other contenders to beat
Presentation of the debate. let s take a few minutes to discuss this debate and where things stand overall in the republicans battle for new hampshire. i want to start in manchester, of course, where senate political director mark preston is standing by with jim acosta. they have been on the ground tracking developments across that state. we also have two political strategists with us, michael denny is in manchester, he is a new hampshire-based republican strategist and robert zimmerman joins us from new york now. he is a democratic strategist and he has been watching the debates and following the race, as well. good to see all of you. thanks for joining us. appreciate you all participating. mark preston, let s stt with you. the nation s first presidential primary already here. any reason to suspect mitt romney won t be the winner? no. i mean, look. bottom line is we know that mitt romney will win on tuesday night. it s a foregone conclusion. he s been working the state ever since h
this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. the word radical islam doesn t appear anywhere. why? because we re fight we re trying to fight this politically correct war and not talking about how they hate us and what we must do to stop us. we know you have differences with president obama, but who has the better argument between snoe santorum and huntsman? i would send troops back into iraq. now? i think we start talking with the iraqi individuals there, the idea that we allow the iranians to come back into iraq and take over that country with all of the treasure both in blood and money that we have spent in iraq, because this president wants to kowtow to his liberal leftist base and move out the men and women. he could have been renegotiated that time frame. i think it s a huge error for s us. we re going to see iran in my opinion, move back in at literally the speed of light. they re going to move back in and all of the work that we have done,
country is ensured. that s what the job of our commander in chief is. you make that decision. not the generals. you make that decision based on an analysis of understanding how virulent the threat of radical islam is. and you confront that threat not just militarily and importantly not just militarily. you confront it first by being honest with the american public about what this threat is. this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. there s the word radical islam doesn t appear anywhere. why? because we are fighting political we re trying to fight this politically correct war and not being honest with the american public as to who the enemy is, how virulently they are and why they hate us. and what we must do to stop them. i know you have differences with president obama but who has the better of this argument between senator santorum and governor huntsman? i think that you have to i would send troops back into iraq, because i will tell you